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With  a  Foreword  and  Explanatory  Foot  Notes  by  the  Author 

Interpreting  the  Thought  and  Ideas  Which 

He  Has  Sought  to  Express 


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BY 

DAVID   A.    EBERLY 


With  a  Foreword  and  Explanatory  Foot  Notes  by  the  Author 
Interpreting  the  Thought  ana  Idtaa  A^hich 
He  Has  Sought  to  Express  , 


PUBLISHED    BY 

WEST     COAST     PRINTING     COMPANY 
OAKLAND.     CAL. 


TO    THOSE 
DUAL   FATHERS   AND    DUAL   MOTHERS 

THE    IMMEDIATE, 

To  Whom  I  am  Indebted    for    an    Unabridged    Inheritance 

and  an  Increased  Endowment  of  Christian  Moral 

Character  and  True  Intelligence  Through  the 

Devoted  Love,  Sacrifice  and  Abnegation 

of  Their  Consecrated  Lives,  and 

THE   ULTIMATE 

That  Ideal  Father  of  Spiritual  and  Universal  Love  and  Wisdom, 

And  that  Good,  True  and  Patient  Mother,  the  Earth, 

In  Whom,  by  Whom  and  Through  Whom 

I  Have  Lived  and  Had  My  Being 

In  Every  Real  Sense 

These  Verses  are 
Reverently  and  Affectionately  Dedicated 


TX 


Copyrighted.  1915 

By 

DAVID   A.    EBERLY 
Alamed.,  Cal. 


ERRATUM:     10th   line,  first  paragraph     of     Introductory, 
omitted  as  follows: 

integral  part,  in  the  proper  adjustment  of  which,  an 

INTRODUCTORY. 

The  writing  of  this  booklet  has  been  a  labor  of  love  and  its 
publication  a  matter  of  conscience.  Three  years  or  more  was 
devoted  to  the  studies  leading  to  its  production  and  it  is  the 
writer's  purpose  to  dedicate  it,  disinterestedly,  to  the  object 
for  which  it  was  written,  that  of  aiding  in  the  establishment  of 
God's  Kingdom  among  men  and  women  by  awakening  a  desire 
for  a  better  understanding  of  their  inseparable  relationships 
with  one  another  and  with  God  through  all  the  physical,  vital, 
mental  and  governmental  functions  of  which  they  form  anA 
intelligent,  unifying  religious  worship  is  the  only  possible 
regulating  medium.  Such  a  religion  would  of  necessity  be 
democratic. 

To  this  end,  he  has  published  and  will  distribute  the  present 
edition  of  one  thousand  copies  at  his  own  expense,  but  he 
hopes  to  receive  co-operation  and  assistance,  in  the  further 
extension  of  this  work,  from  those  of  his  readers  with  whom 
his  views  and  expressions  meet  approval. 

A  coupon  is  attached,  following  this  "Introductory,"  which 
may  be  filled  out  and  copies  will  be  sent  as  requested  so  far 
as  funds  so  received  will  permit.  It  is  suggested  that  a  mini- 
mum of  twenty-five  cents  be  sent  for  each  copy  ordered.  This 
will  cover,  it  is  thought,  the  expense  of  publishing  and  mailing, 
but  the  margin  allowed  for  failure  to  reciprocate  in  this  way 
is  very  small.  Should  any  be  especially  interested  and  feel 
able  to  send  larger  amounts,  the  writer  will  employ  such 
funds  faithfully  in  the  furtherance  of  this  work  and  will  make 
full  accounting  of  all  such  funds  in  future  editions,  over  the 
certificate  and  audit  of  a  responsible  committee  of  Christian 
men  and  women  appointed  for  that  purpose. 

The  writer  aims  to  initiate  a  broad,  conscious  movement 
for  Christian  unity  along  natural  lines,  to  which  he  believes 
all  sincere  and  consecrated  Americans,  whatsoever  be  their 
sect  or  creed  in  religion  or  politics,  may  subscribe.  To  this 
end  he  has  sought  for  a  definition  for  religion  and  of  American- 
ism, of  Christianity  and  of  every  related  thought,  that  will 
unite  them  all  under  the  folds  of  a  common  sacred  banner,  that 
of  the  Brotherhood  of  Man  and  the  Principles  of  Democracy, 
as  expressed  and  instituted  in  our  nation. 

It  is  his  purpose,  God  permitting,  not  to  use  one  cent  of  the 
funds  derived  from  this  source  for  his  personal  benefit,  but  to 
employ  them,  to  the  best  of  his  ability,  for  the  purpose  indi- 
cated, the  extension  of  a  knowledge  of  God  based  upon  the 
Christ  teachings  of  all  religions  and  of  natural  law  and  science 
as  well.  Truth  is  universal  in  kind  whatsoever  be  its  differ- 
ence  in  degree.  322216 


Should  his  work  receive  recognition,  he  proposes  to  under- 
take the  enrollment  of  such  as  subscribe  to  these  broad  princi- 
ples, so  far  as  he  is  given  strength  and  support  to  do  so,  em- 
ploying his  personal  funds  and  any  surplus  of  funds  derived  as 
above  outlined  or  as  may  hereafter  be  otherwise  obtained  to 
make  this  purpose  effective.  Subscriptions  will  be  indicated 
by  number  and  not  by  name,  unless  express  permission  be 
given  otherwise.  Personally  and  so  far  as  the  movement  as  a 
whole  is  concerned,  the  writer  is  opposed  to  any  secrecy  as  he 
has  a  supreme  faith  in  God  and  in  Christ  and  confidence  in  the 
essential  perfection  in  love  and  intelligence  of  God's  highest 
creation  on  earth,  man,  if  these  qualities  be  effectively  ap- 
pealed to. 

On  one  subject,  the  writer  desires  to  express  himself 
clearly  so  as  to  not  be  misunderstood.  He  is  not  of  those  who 
are  opposed  to  military  instruction,  training  and  reasonable 
preparation,  if  these  be  undertaken  with  no  spirit  of  aggress- 
iveness or  unwise  and  unseemgly  haste  and  fear.  He  has  seen 
seven  years'  service  in  the  army  and  knows  the  value  of  good 
order  and  discipline  to  the  individual  in  giving  balance,  self- 
control  and  character.  But  he  is  opposed  to  any  hysterical 
stampeding  in  one  direction  or  another.  Let  us  get  a  good 
perspective  of  ourselves.  Let  us  translate  our  aims  and  objects 
from  that  of  dollars  and  cents  and  commercial  profit  and  loss. 
Let  us  hallow  and  consecrate  them  to  the  good  of  all  humanity 
and  not  of  ourselves  and  we  shall  once  and  forever  cut  the 
fangs  of  the  demon  of  militarism. 

Christ,  in  every  perfect  or  relatively  perfect  manifestation 
of  Himself  of  which  we  have  cognizance,  was  armed  fully  with 
power  for  good  but  was  negative  for  evil.  Let  us  arm  our- 
selves in  this  spirit  and  cleanse  ourselves  internally  of  the 
spirit  of  evil,  which  is  yet  within  us,  and  we  shall  not  fear  to 
assume  every  responsibility  that  may  arise. 

Helpful  suggestions  and  criticisms  are  fully  invited  and 
will  be  given  careful  consideration.  So  far  as  may  be,  all 
communications  directed  in  this  spirit  will  be  answered,  but, 
for  the  present,  this  will  be  possible  only  to  a  limited  degree. 
Later  it  may  be  that  some  medium  of  communication  will  be 
granted  that  will  enable  us  to  answer  all  such  in  the  spirit  of 
mutual  helpfulness.  None  others  will  be  answered. 

Before  closing  this  "Introductory,"  the  writer  wishes  to 
say  that  he  takes  no  merit  to  himself  in  any  connection  what- 
soever with  this  work.  He  has  no  ax  to  grind  and  no  selfish 
ambition  to  pander  to.  He  and  his  family  are,  for  the  present, 
rationally  provided  for,  and,  for  the  rest,  believing  that  wealth 
and  power  in  excess  of  understanding  and  capacity  to  wisely 
use  them  to  be  curses  and  not  blessings  to  their  holders,  he  is 
content  to  let  the  future  to  the  care  and  judgment  of  God. 

DAVID  A.  EBERLY. 


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FOREWORD. 

Several  years  ago,  the  writer  undertook,  for  his  own  satis- 
faction, to  write  an  analysis  and  explanation  of  some  of  life's 
enigmas  from  the  view  point  of  a  practical  man  of  affairs. 
Since  young  boyhood,  he  had  been  compelled  to  settle  his  own 
questions  and  had  acquired  that  quality  of  ready  judgment 
and  decision  that  distinguish  such  men,  definite  and  largely 
sub-conscious  weighing  and  balancing  of  everyday  problems 
from  the  standpoint  of  utility. 

Had  he  then  known,  as  he  has  since  learned,  that  life  is  a 
continuous  chain  of  causes  and  sequences,  and  that  to  find  an 
answer  to  any  single  question  pertaining  to  it  necessarily 
involved  the  explanation  of  life  itself  and  its  pursuit  from 
sequence  to  sequence  back  to  its  source  in  a  primal  cause,  the 
magnitude  of  the  subject  and  his  own  apparent  inadequacy 
to  approach  it,  would  possibly  have  overcome  him  at  the  out- 
set. In  which  case,  he  would  never  have  known  another  truth 
of  inestimable  comfort  and  joy  to  all  who  have  discovered  it, 
that  anyone,  being  as  all  of  us  are  of  the  very  essence  of  life 
and  especially  endowed  with  faculties  for  its  interpretation, 
not  only  qualified  but  under  the  precise  obligation  to  employ 
these  faculties  for  this  definite  purpose,  and  to  put  ourselves 
into  full  harmony  and  correspondence  with  it. 

The  writer  was  fortunate  in  inheriting  from  his  parents 
that  greatest  of  gifts,  a  strong  moral  character  based  on  the 
finest  religious  and  spiritual  instruction  and  example;  but  the 
beliefs  and  motives  so  derived,  must  have  come,  very  early, 
intc  conflict  with  the  facts  and  experiences  obtained  from 
other  educational  and  practical  sources,  so  that  they  were 
submerged  into  sub-consciousness,  where  they  remained 
dormant  until  finally  reawakened  (and  I  hope  broadened  and 
vitalized)  into  effective  command,  as  the  result  of  this  appar- 
ently casual  and  inconsequential  (but  in  realty,  the  writer  is 
now  fully  convinced,  effectual  and  altogether  sequential) 
attempt  to  satisfy  his  vanity  and  idle  curiosity. 

Had  he  suspected  that  he  was  about  to  open  a  portal  in  his 
personality  which  he  would  never  again  be  able  to  close ; 
through  which  an  influence,  a  spirit,  so  all-powerful  and 
compelling  would  immediately  gain  entrance  as  to  completely 
change  his  whole  nature ;  a  task-master  that  would  lead  him 
to  labors  so  arduous  that  his  weak,  human  efforts,  previously 
undertaken  under  the  compulsion  of  circumstances,  would 
seem  small  and  pitiable  in  comparison ;  perhaps,  again,  he 
would  have  hesitated  and  permitted  a  weak  and  grovelling 


II. 

lower  nature  to  continue  to  bind  him  in  fetters,  as  it  has 
indeed  since  sought,  ineffectually,  to  do,  time  and  again. 

The  writer  will  endeavor  in  this  "Foreword",  briefly  as 
possible,  to  outline  his  matured  impressions,  and  I  may  say, 
convictions,  of  the  meaning  of  the  Philosophy  of  Life  that  he 
has  been  permitted  to  develope  and  somewhat  also  of  the 
processes  leading  to  its  production. 

At  first,  his  interest  was  directed  toward  the  explanation 
of  the  historical  significance  of  the  various  moral,  religious 
and  social  codes,  but  he  very  soon  reached  the  end  of  his 
capacity  to  follow  these  to  any  logical  termination ;  explana- 
tions to  seemingly  simple  questions  evaded  him  continually, 
and,  had  he  followed  his  own  inclinations,  he  would  have 
have  given  up  to  despair ;  but  already  the  spirit  had  made  him 
captive  and  would  not  release  him ;  the  finding  of  truth  had 
assumed  an  importance  that  overshadowed  every  interest, — 
not  to  the  extent  of  allowing  him  to  neglect  other  duties  and 
obligations,  for  his  primary  lesson  had  taught  him  that  neglect 
of  these  would  utterly  unfit  and  incapacitate  him  for  any 
progress, — but  pleasures  and  pastimes,  which  had  previously 
occupied  a  predominent  interest,  now  assumed  an  altogether 
different  status,  that  of  servants  to  his  aim,  in  keeping  the 
body  and  mind  healthy,  giving  them  reasonable  rest  and  relief, 
instead  of  being,  as  they  formerly  were,  masters ;  and  the 
same  was  true  of  money ;  it  was  only  good  insofar  as  it  minis- 
tered, directly  or  indirectly,  to  the  attainment  of  this  one 
purpose. 

But  so  long  as  the  writer  sought  to  depend  upon  himself, 
on  his  personal  knowledge  and  experience,  which  he  had 
heretofore  depended  upon  habitually  in  dealing  with  everyday 
questions  of  utility,  so  long  was  he  baffled.  Until  this  time, 
he  had  placed  no  reliance  upon  anyone  or  anything  but  him- 
self. It  was  inevitable  that  now,  however,  face  to  face  with 
a  question  of  supreme  interest,  toward  the  settlement  of  which 
every  true  impulse  of  his  being  was  enlisted,  he  should  set  up 
a  process  altogether  distinct  and  different ;  this  may  be  likened 
to  a  process  of  waiting,  of  extension,  of  longing,  of  surrender. 

It  was  at  this  time,  when  he  had  put  himself  in  a  perfectly 
receptive  state,  that  the  key  was  given  him  that  eventually  led 
him  up  to  and  through  the  gates  of  truth.  It  came  in  a  most 
prosaic  way,  so  that  for  a  time  he  did  not  know  that  his  word- 
less prayers  had  been  heard  and  answered.  One  evening  his 
little  daughter  asked  him  to  help  her  to  arrange  some  rhymes 
for  certain  words  in  her  lessons  for  the  next  day,  and,  although 
he  had  never  attempted  anything  of  the  kind  before,  he  under- 
took to  do  so  and,  almost  without  effort,  he  found  himself 
arranging  rhymes  and  couplets  into  a  finished  jingle  that 


III. 

seemed  sufficiently  amusing  at  the  time.  So  much  so,  that  the 
following  day  he  found  himself  forming  another  little  descrip- 
tive poem  about  "The  school  where  we  go,  I  would  have  you 
all  know,  Is  the  best  that  ever  was  seen,  etc."  and  following 
this  several  more,  not  without  point  and  merit,  but  not  being 
dedicated  to  the  purpose  for  which  the  writer  believes  poesy 
is  intended,  that  of  the  soul,  they  are  not  worth  repeating 
here. 

Naturally  such  an  instrument  could  not  long  remain  unrec- 
ognized, and  very  shortly  it  was  at  work  again,  this  time 
bringing  order  out  of  the  chaos  of  the  writer's  ideas  and  to 
this  service  he  has  ever  since  dedicated  it;  nor  could  he  ima- 
gine himself  again  debasing  it  to  lesser  uses. 

From  the  above,  it  will  be  seen,  that  the  writer  makes  no 
claim  to  any  wisdom  or  originality  personal  to  himself,  but  he 
feels  sure  that  he  has,  to  say  the  least,  been  granted  insight 
adequate  for  his  own  necessities,  and  just  as  his  individuality 
is  a  product  of  the  processes  of  creation  in  this  age,  so  the 
Philosophy  of  Life,  that  he  has  found  sufficient  for  his  needs, 
should  serve  a  like  purpose  for  others,  and,  in  view  of  the 
conditions  surrounding  its  attainment,  it  would  amount  to 
criminal  negligence  if  he  failed  to  offer  it  to  others. 

The  original  aim  was  to  find  truth  applicable  to  individual 
needs  and  therefore  much  that  he  has  written  is  directed 
towards  the  study  of  processes  affecting  individual  life  and 
development.  But  it  was  inevitable  that  his  investigations 
and  studies  should  have  led  him  to  recognize  that  the  individ- 
ual is  and  must  be  subordinate  to  his  environment.  God, 
through  nature,  deals  with  individuals  only  in  this  relation- 
ship. Animals  are  ailtogether  dependent  creatures  of  their 
environment  without  any  conscious  realization  of  the  direct 
creative  role  which  they  perform  within  it  and  human  beings 
are  purely  animal  until  this  realization  is  developed  into 
consciousness.  A  subconscious  realization  of  this  takes  place, 
however,  in  the  young  at  a  very  early  age,  as  a  heritage  from 
what  might  with  propriety  he  termed  this  sub-christian  era, 
and  this  early  sub-consciousness  is  gradually  developed,  under 
the  stress  of  circumstances,  into  a  perfunctory  obedience  to  the 
implications  which  necessarily  accompany  it,  that  of  respon- 
sibility for  the  conditions  under  which  they  live.  But  so  long 
as  this  responsibility  is  kept  submerged  in  subconsciousness, 
so  long  is  the  human  being  imperfect,  self-willed  and  resist- 
ent,  seeking  execuses  for  nullifying  and  disobeying  his  best 
impulses.  Social  laws  have  their  genesis  in  this  subconscius- 
ness.  Moral  law  has  its  genesis  in  the  fully  awakened,  alert 
consciousness.  The  former  seeks  to  find  freedom  and  liberty 
from  this  responsibility  in  the  largest  measure  that  circum- 


IV. 

stances  will  permit.  The  latter  seeks  for  freedom  and  liberty 
within  this  responsibility,  by  codifying  its  enactments  in 
harmony  with  responsibilities  to  the  fullest  extent.  Here  we 
have  two  diametrically  opposed  propositions,  which  will 
account  for  the  anarchaic  mass  of  legal  enactment  and  pro- 
cedure with  which  we  are  trying  to  misgovern  ourselves. 
Moral  law  is  simple  and  direct.  Social  law  is  indirect,  com- 
plicated, tangled  and  inefficient. 

The  allegory  of  Adam  and  Eve  contains  the  essence  of  this 
truth  as  does  all  biblical  moral  causes  and  sequences,  following 
one  another  in  logical  order  from  Adam  to  Abraham,  Abraham 
to  Moses,  Moses  to  Eiljah  and  from  Elijah  to  Jesus,  in  whom 
The  Christ  found  complete  human  expression;  the  concrete 
personification  of  moral  law  and  a  regnant  spiritual  unit 
governing  and  guiding  human  progress  in  the  same  immuta- 
ble way  that  physical  and  chemical  laws  govern  their  spheres 
of  action,  in  a  perfection  of  harmony  with  the  Divine  Will  or 
Ideal,  all  of  which  may  be  expressed  perfectly  in  the  single 
word  consciousness  or  reactivity. 

But  how  are  we  aware  of  this  Divine  Will  or  Ideal? 
Surely  we  know  it  by  the  factor  by  which  we  distinguish  the 
living  from  the  dead.  That  factor  which  is  the  very  Holy 
Spirit  of  God,  God's  increasing  (or  evolutionary)  desire  that 
His  creation  shall  know  Him  in  spirit  and  in  truth  as  their 
Heavenly  Father  who  loves  them  and  who  desires  them  to 
adjust  themselves  in  harmonious  sympathy  with  Him  and 
with  one  another.  This  can  only  be  fully  attained  by  those 
religious  observances  which  awaken  and  bring  into  our  lives 
this  state,  condition  and  relationship  to  the  fullest  extent; 
that  of  song,  prayer,  worship  and  communion  and  the  intel- 
ligent study  of  God's  word  and  of  His  handiwork,  all  con- 
sciously directed  to  the  production  of  effective  results  in  the 
life  which  God  has  given  us. 

Now  what  is  the  distinctive  guiding  factor  in  purely  animal 
consciousness?  Isn't  it  love,  instinctive  but  nevertheless 
love,  upon  which  depends  self-preservation,  in  its  external 
sense ;  that  guides  the  lamp  of  life  up  the  long  gradient  from 
the  protozoa  to  the  human  form,  in  one  direction,  and  from 
the  protophyte  to  the  highest  corresponding  organic  develop- 
ment in  vegetation,  in  another? 

Again  isn't  love  the  distinctive  guiding  factor  in  human 
consciousness?  Love  on  the  brink  of  consummation  and  full 
fruitage,  which  by  reason  of  direct  contact  with  its  essence, 
in  ever  so  slight  a  degree,  acquires  the  power  of  self-expres- 
sion and  definition,  thereby  becoming  an  intelligent  person- 
ality, and  which  is  potentially  capable  of  perfection,  when 
intelligence  and  love,  having  become  completely  harmonious 


V. 

and  reactive,  produce  true  or  ideal  intellectuality.  These 
three  stages  are  marked  by  three  conditions  of  reactivity.  In 
the  animal  by  sensation ;  in  the  human  by  aspiration ;  and  in 
the  finished  form  by  inspiration,  in  which  we  see  God  face  to 
face,  and  knowing  His  will,  endeavor  without  ceasing  to  obey 
it  and  to  throw  off  the  fetters  that  yet  bind  us  to  error,  sin  and 
evil. 

Are  we  not  fully  aware  that  in  Jesus  this  will,  this  ideal,  this 
Christ  condition  was  fully  and  perfectly  expressed?  That, 
notwithstanding  His  sublime  power  to  resist  and  destroy,  the 
glad  and  willing  self-surrender  to  pain,  suffering  and  death 
was  necessary  to  show  mankind  the  nature  of  love  divine  and 
teach  us  the  road  to  God?  What  voice  do  we  listen  to  when 
we  hear  it  said  that  Christianity  is  an  impractical  idealism? 
That  it  has  no  place  in  practical  affairs?  True  it  is,  I  grant 
you,  that  Christianity,  as  professed  and  practised  in  its  auto- 
cratic and  sectarian  forms  has  thus  far  missed  the  mark.  But 
these,  it  should  be  remembered,  are  formative,  preparative 
states,  fitting  us — gradually  but  certainly — to  finally  overcome 
and  throw  off  the  powers  of  darkness,  not  alone  as  individuals 
and  churches,  but  as  nations  and  races,  to  the  establishment 
of  God's  Kingdom  on  earth.  The  teachings  of  Christ  are  at 
every  point  harmonious  with  the  facts  of  biology  and  biologi- 
cal evolution,  and  through  the  study  of  these,  the  sciences  of 
life,  of  God's  handiwork,  the  direction  and  true  purpose  of 
Christianity  will  be  clarified  and  better  understood.  But  this 
study  should  be  undertaken  with  reverence  and  consecration. 

Another  parallel  will  give  a  simple  explanation  of  the 
states  and  conditions  of  existence  and  of  being.  In  the  ele- 
mentary and  mineral  states,  God  gradually  built  up  the  foun- 
dation structure  of  the  universe,  perfectly  subject  to  divine 
law  and  order,  and  found  it  good.  In  the  organic  kingdoms  he 
begets  sensate  beings  to  whom  he  acts  as  tutor  or  teacher, 
instructing,  correcting,  winnowing,  grading  and  guiding  these 
creatures  of  his  making;  arrived  at  the  human  state  of  being, 
he  admits  us  to  apprenticeship  in  which  we  are  honored  with  a 
limited  freedom  as  His  assistants,  but  still  incapacitated  for 
assuming  full  control.  Here  the  teacher  has  become  converted 
into  an  employer,  master  or  critic.  Finally,  the  apprenticeship 
completed  and  having  arrived  at  master-craftsmanship,  He 
will  admit  us  to  full  and  unlimited  partnership.  But  this  can 
only  have  its  ultimate  accomplishment  when  we  shall  have 
worked  out  our  destiny  on  earth  by  the  establishment  of  God's 
Ideal  Kingdom  among  men. 

In  Jesus  this  consummation  was  complete.  In  Him,  love 
and  intelligence  was  perfectly  harmonized  into  a  free  intellec- 
tual entity ;  by  His  teachings,  example  and  atonement,  this 


VI. 

state  and  condition  is  made  available  to  all  humanity ;  but 
Christ's  Kingdom  is  to  be  established  here  on  earth  among 
men,  so  far  as  we  are  now  concerned.  The  mistake  which 
has  heretofore  been  made  by  the  high  priests  of  esthetical 
"osophies"  and  religious  cults  and  paganisms  of  the  un- 
reality and,  as  well,  by  most  Christian  doctrinaires  until 
the  advent  in  recent  times  of  exact  scientific  knowledge, 
has  been,  in  imagining  that  we  can  enter  the  Kingdom 
of  God  by  any  other  road  than  by  the  establishment  of 
His  Kingdom  on  earth.  God's  Kingdom  on  earth  with  the 
Christ  Intellect  governing  and  reigning  is  not  an  impractical 
idealism;  it  is  the  only  practical  materialsm.  Nothing  else  is 
practical  whatsoever,  as  we  shall  eventually  learn.  The 
disciples  asked  Jesus,  "Who  then  may  be  saved?"  referring  to 
the  statement  of  Christ  that  it  is  easier  for  a  camel  to  go 
through  the  eye  of  a  needle  that  for  a  rich  man  to  enter  the 
Kingdom  of  God.  To  this  Jesus  answered  saying,  "With  men 
this  were  impossible;  but  with  God  all  things  are  possible." 
Some  day,  and  I  believe  that  right  soon,  Christianity  will  be 
freed  from  the  necessity  of  evading  such  a  positive  statement 
of  Jesus  by  means  of  subterfuge ;  it  is  apparent  that  the  dis- 
ciples did  not  seek  to  so  evade  it  by  seeking  some  figurative 
needle's  eye  large  enough  for  a  camel  to  pass  through  with 
difficulty ;  nor  did  Jesus  in  His  final  answer  leave  room  for  any 
such  an  assumption.  The  parables  of  Jesus  and  every  term  he 
used  were  positive,  not  one  was  negative.  Jesus  did  not  know 
how  God  would  finally  get  rid  of  the  curse  of  riches  and  the 
consequent  curse  of  poverty;  He  only  knew  that  they  were 
incompatable  with  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  that  they  would 
certainly  be  gotten  rid  of  in  God's  good  time.  And  so  they 
will.  Satan  says  they  won't  and  seeks  to  entrench  himself 
behind  subterfuge.  Christ  says  they  will,  Which  will  win? 

Now  let  us  take  stock  of  the  actual  environment  at  present 
entrusted  to  us  as  apprentices  for  our  experimentation  and 
edification.  At  this  time,  men  and  women,  churches  and 
nations  face  a  situation  pregnant  with  possibilities,  involving 
in  their  solution,  as  but  only  once  before,  the  salvation  or 
damnation  of  mankind. 

Students  and  observers  of  every  branch  of  human  knowl- 
edge have  noted  two  characteristics  in  the  evolutionary  pro- 
cesses of  creation;  one  of  slow  growth  and  development;  the 
other  a  critical,  catacylsmic  stage,  marking  profound  organic 
change. 

This  is  true  of  all  the  natural  kingdoms  of  which  we  have 
cognizance,  and  also  of  the  spiritual  kingdom  so  far  as  we 
have  attained  reactivity  to  it. 

Happily    for    the   optimist,    notwithstanding    innumerable 


VII. 

evidences  of  retrogression,  error  and  incident  evil,  in  both  of 
these  kingdoms,  the  steps  of  progress  are  still  more  clearly 
marked,  and  even  that  which  from  direct  view  presents  as- 
pects of  unmitigated  evil,  indirectly  or  on  the  reverse,  presents 
invariably  a  picture  of  worth  and  utility,  so  that  he  is  justified 
in  his  faith  in  the  integrity  of  the  whole. 

If  however  his  philosophy  leads  him  to  self-satisfaction, 
inactive  contentment  and  stagnation,  basking  in  a  surfeit  of 
material  well-being ;  if  he  considers  all  things  from  the  stand- 
point of  individual  and  personal  benefit — and  in  this  should  be 
included  every  narrowing  influence  of  family,  class,  sect, 
nation  and  race, — or  indeed  from  any  viewpoint  that  does  not 
widen  itself  so  as  to  include  all  humanity;  far  better  for  him 
had  he  suffered  some  great  physical  handicap,  such  as  blind- 
ness, in  order  that  his  vision  might  have  been  directed  inward. 

Churches  and  nations  are  as  much  subject  to  this  law  as 
individuals.  The  spirit  and  teachings  of  the  age  have  been 
just  some  such  an  optimism,  where  they  have  not  indeed 
passed  beyond,  to  the  production  of  a  desructive  pessimism. 
These  conditions  have  been  obscured  and  hidden  by  great 
activity  in  material  directions,  and  qualified  by  certain  well- 
insulated  forms  of  charity  and  public  spirit,  but,  in  the  main, 
blind  or  deaf  to  the  deep  inwardness  of  the  impulse  for  a  wider 
and  purer  application  of  unselfishness,  not  alone  in  its  indi- 
vidual, but  particularly  in  its  religious,  national  and  racial 
aspects. 

Europe  is  reaping  the  harvest  of  its  self-satisfied  optimism 
on  the  one  hand,  and  its  blatant  pessimism  on  the  other.  Not- 
withstanding, out  of  these,  when  the  present  frightful  cata- 
clysm is  past,  every  true  optimist  of  balanced  judgment  is 
justified  in  anticipating  that  ultimate  great  good  shall  come, 
in  the  revival  and  extension  to  wider  spheres  of  application 
of  the  only  true  and  perfect  optimism  of  Christ. 

But  what  of  this  great  nation ;  what  of  ourselves ;  we 
Americans,  citizens  as  we  are  of  a  great  Christian  common- 
wealth, be  we  Jew  or  Gentile,  be  we  followers  of  Mohammed, 
Buddha,  Brahma,  Cpnfucius  or  of  Jesus,  be  we  Protestant  or 
Catholic,  be  we  from  the  shores  of  Europe,  Asia  or  Africa  or 
from  the  Isles  of  the  sea ;  let  us  hear  and  know  the  truth,  yes 
and  from  henceforth  speak  it ;  that  in  accepting  citizenship  in 
this  Great  Altruistic  Republic ;  in  subscribing  to  its  doctrines 
of  Freedom,  Liberty  and  interdependence  within  the  Law,  not 
of  man,  but  of  Nature  and  Nature's  God,  we  become,  con- 
sciously, sub-consciously  or  unconsciously,  whatsoever  else 
we  are  or  think  we  are,  followers  of  Christ  and  Children  of 
God. 


VIII. 

And  happy  shall  we,  of  this  great  nation  be, — created  as  it 
was  from  profoundly  spiritual  elements  and  under  profoundly 
dramatic  circumstances;  heirs  to  a  virgin  soil  and  a  virgin 
philosophy;  with  an  internal  and  external  history  showing 
great  virility  and  marked  reactivity  to  advanced  human  con- 
ceptions of  altruism,  as  was  evidenced  in  the  result  of  our  civil 
war,  in  the  liberation  of  the  slaves  and  our  subsequent  recon- 
struction on  a  broader,  truer  and  firmer  basis;  in  our  unselfish 
attitude  in  Cuba,  Porto  Rico  and  The  Philippines  and  towards 
Japan,  China,  Mexico  and  other  countries ;  in  our  Doctrine  of 
Monroe  as  expressed  and  frequently  applied ; — happy  shall  we 
indeed  be,  if  we  shall  adequately  fulfil  our  manifest  destiny, 
especially  in  the  face  of  present  actualities,  by  now  awakening 
and  bringing  to  full  maturity  our  national  conscience  and 
consciousness,  so  as  to  cleanse  ourselves — not  superficially, 
like  the  Chinaman,  to  save  our  face — but  inwardly  by  rededi- 
cating  and  reconsecrating  ourselves,  and  if  need  be  reorganiz- 
ing and  reconstructing  our  whole  basic  life,  with  full  aware- 
ness, so  as  to  conform  in  all  things  to  the  Ideal  of  Christ, 
which  is  the  Will  of  God.  In  no  other  way  can  we  hope  to  win 
a  felictiy  that  is  worth  while,  that  of  a  divine  destiny  divinely 
fulfilled,  which  alone  is  capable  of  justifying  us  to  ourselves 
and  to  God,  either  as  individuals,  churches  or  nations. 

Christ  spoke  as  one  having  authority,  and  so  this  nation, 
out  of  its  heritage  of  Christ's  spirit  as  embodied  in  its  funda- 
mental laws  and  declarations  and  in  most  of  its  statutes,  its 
peculiar  experiences  and  composite  citizenship,  shall  be  called, 
in  the  fullness  of  time,  to  speak  with  conscious  authority  to  the 
whole  world,  and  if  need  be  suffer  martyrdom  for  its  prin- 
ciples. 

But  how  may  this  be,  if  we  as  citizens  and  organic  sects  and 
bodies  deny  to  our  nation  her  true  place  in  our  hearts  and 
minds;  that  deep  reverence  and  respect  that  shows  itself,  not 
in  loud-mouthed  and  self-seeking  patriotism  or  in  narrow, 
weak  and  selfish  class  and  sectarian  pharisaism,  but  which 
causes  us  to  be  awake  and  jealous  of  her  honor  in  little  as  in 
big  things;  that  subordinates,  understandingly,  individual, 
sectarian  and  corporate  interests  to  the  nation's  higher  inter- 
ests, not  alone  in  times  or  trial  and  of  danger,  but  in  days  of 
peace  and  plenty;  that  considers  the  conservation  of  her 
resources,  the  public  funds,  the  honest  and  careful  administra- 
tion of  her  affairs,  be  they  great  or  small,  as  sacred;  that  is, 
above  all,  ever  watchful  that  that  highest  quality  of  divinity,' 
Pure  Justice,  tempered  by  love  and  mercy,  shall  be  meted  in 
her  name,  equally  to  the  high  and  low,  the  strong  and  the 
weak ;  and  finally,  that  is  at  all  times  mindful  that  her  spiritual 
integrity  be  not  undermined  by  insidious  enemies,  but  that  it 


IX. 

be  conserved,  deepened,  strengthened  and  clarified,  until  in 
this  nation,  The  Christ,  Humanity's  Hope,  shall  again  find 
complete  and  perfect  conscious  expression. 

Jesus  was  human  in  his  temptation ;  satan  was  with  him  in 
the  wilderness.  So  also  is  this  nation  human,  but  like  Jesus,  it 
has  a  divine  destiny.  Satan  is  here  also  in  our  midst,  and  he 
will  never  be  conquered  until  we  set  about  consciously  to 
conquer  him,  with  a  perfect  realizing  sense  of  our  power, 
through  The  Christ,  to  do  so.  Jesus  did  not  conquer 
satan  unconsciously;  satan's  power  never  was  uncon- 
sciously overcome.  His  strength  lies  in  unconsciousness 
and  in  lack  of  consciousness  to  responsibilities  to  God  and  to 
His  creation  and  it  is  only  through  the  awakened  conscious- 
ness to  these  obligations  that  The  Christ  can  fully  enter  to 
guide  us  over  the  only  possible  road  of  progress. 

Terrible  had  it  been  for  humanity  had  Jesus  failed  us  in 
His  temptation,  we  his  Christian  followers  must  believe,  and 
even  so,  terrible  shall  it  certainly  be  for  this  nation  and  for 
humanity,  if  it  fail  in  these  days  of  its  temptation. 

Unconsciousness  and  sub-consciousness  can  lead  us  to  the 
cross-road  but  only  full  consciousness  can  give  us  light  to 
recognize  the  cross  and  strength  to  assume  and  bear  its 
burden,  not  only  without  complaints  and  rebellion,  but  with 
great  joy  that  we  should  thus  highly  honored  and  trusted  by 
God. 

If  the  underlying  idea  of  the  writer  is  duly  apprehended, 
the  reader  of  these  poems  should  be  harmoniously  led  to  the 
thought  which  I  have  sought  to  express  in  this  "Foreword", 
with  compelling  force  upon  every  human  and  divine  relation- 
ship, in  individual,  family,  political,,  social  and  religious  life. 
Should  this  aim  be  effected  in  any  degree  whatsoever  then 
his  labor  shall  not  have  been  in  vain. 

In  closing  the  writer  wishes  to  make  grateful  acknowledg- 
ment to  Mr.  John  Boardman  of  Iloilo,  P.  I.,  for  the  use  of  his 
library  and  to  the  Rev.  Chas.  L.  Mears  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Alameda,  Cal.,  for  the  inspiration  derived 
from  association  with  him  and  with  the  broad  minded  church 
membership  of  which  he  is  the  honored  leader,  which  has 
permitted  the  writer  to  get  into  renewed  touch  with  the 
organic  Life  of  Christ.  This  is  said  without  any  spirit  of 
criticism  for  other  forms  of  Christian  development,  all  of 
which  the  writer  has  come  to  know  are  performing  important 
and  necessary  functions  towards  the  production  of  a  common 
result.  THE  AUTHOR. 

Alameda,  Cal.,  August  2,  1915. 


A  UNIVERSAL  PRAYER. 

Oh !  Thou  Law  of  Laws  and  Judge  of  Judges ! 

Oh !  Thou  Ruler  of  Rulers  and  Father  of  Fathers ! 

Thou  in  whom  all  order  and  purpose,  beauty  and  harmony 

exists ! 

Thou  through  whom  we  have  all  knowledge  and  realization! 
Oh !  Thou  Giver  of  all  good  and  gracious  gifts ! 
To  Thee  we  bow  our  humiliated  heads  in  supplication. 
Pardon,  Thou,  Thy  children's  willful,  wayward  folly; 
That  still  resists  Thy  proffered  love  and  care ; 
Still  blindly  follows  after  God's  of  Self  unholy ; 
That  once  again  has  led  them  into  hell's  dark  depths  of  black 

despair. 

Send  Thou  once  more  to  us  Thy  gracious  guidance ; 
That  we  may  yet  again  assure  our  faltering  souls, 
That  Thou,  indeed,  art  God  of  Hope  and  not  of  Vengeance ; 
That,  Thou,  indeed,  art  He  of  whom  The  Christ  extolled. 
Oh !  Lord  forgive,  we  pray  Thee,  our  stiff-necked  pride ; 
Our  self-conceit,  vanity,  greed  and  guile ; 
That   time   on   times    unnumbered   Thy    Radiant    Light   has 

crucified ; 

Oh !  once  more  grajit  us  vision  of  Thy  sweet,  forgiving  smile. 
Hasten,  quickly  hasten,  Lord,  the  breaking  of  Thy  day, 
When  mankind's  bitter,  selfish  battle  shall  be  won, 
When  through  Thy  earthly  children's  minds,  a  ray, 
Direct  from  Thee,  shall  freely  go  and  come ; 
Whereby  one  and  all  shall  see  and  know  and  fully  realize 
Thine  ordered   love,   which   beats   and   pulses   through   Thy 

universe, 

Is  the  only  source  and  fountain  for  the  wise, 
Whose  living  waters  alone  can  quench  hell's  burning  thirst. 


THE  GOAL  OF  PROGRESS. 

Intelligence  in  man  is  a  growing  germ, 

A  burning,  glowing,  restless  flame, 

That  penetrates  its  eager,  resistless  way 

Through  every  state  and  realm  and  clime ; 

It  scales  the  heights,  explores  the  grave ; 

No  gloom  too  dark,  nor  depth  too  deep, 

Nor  distance  too  great  to  brave. 

Yea,  Infinity  itself,  doth  challenge ; 

That  every  secret  of  suns  and  worlds  afar, 

Like  those  of  scarce  nearer  range, 

Buried  within  the  microscopic  cell 

Of  cytoplasm  and  chromosomes.  *1 

Electron,  atom  and  phantom  ray,  all  shall  tell 

Their  tale  complete,  yield  up 

Time's  garnered  stores  of  experience ; 

A  pure  and  nutrient  fruit;  a  just  inheritance 

And  fitting  to  the  actual  mortal  soul 

By  man  achieved ;  attained 

Through  countless  cycles 

Of  progressive  order  and  cataclysmic  change ; 

(Intelligence  intuitive,  reactive,  real; 

Ignorance  rebellious,  retroactive,  unreal.) 

Love,  life  and  joy;  sin,  death  and  pain, 

Mutinous  in  service  and  sacrifice 

To  the  Almighty  Ideal  that  overrules ; 

Which  now  in  him  lives,  labors,  fights 

And  wins  an  ever  wider,  conscious  sway ; 

In  Jesus,  The  Christ,  first  human  born,  complete  and  pure, 

Was  gladly  shed  the  redeeming  flood  of  innocence ; 

A  vital,  widespread,  regnant  spore; 

For  which  each  mental  cell  of  anabolic  sense, 

Must  eager  wait  and  welcome  give  that  catabolic  force ;  *2 

Until  shall  fully  germinate  and  reproduce 

Pure  Intellects  Immortal,  a  worthy  race, 

Conditioned  to  live  and  know  All  Truth, 

Perfected  to  react  in  God's  Supernal  Environment. 

*1.     See  footnote  on  pp.  31. 

2.  Anabolism  and  catabolism  (or  katabolism)  are  two 
corresponding  phases  of  metabolism,  that  is  of  the  life  pro- 
cesses. In  anabolism,  we  have  a  synthetic  or  building  up 
process,  or  assimilation.  In  catabolism,  this  is  reversed  with 
the  liberation  of  energy.  Catabolism  and  anabolism  go  on 
together,  but  one  may  predominate  and  obscure  the  other. 

The  anabolic  power  of  animal  cells  is  small  and  catabolism 
(in  consequence  of  their  greater  activity)  is  usually  greater 

2 


THE  PHILIPPINES.     *1 

As  from  my  azotea,  *2 
I  sit  and  contemplate, 
This  mystic,  tropic  beauty, 
I  can  feel  my  soul  dilate ; 
That  to  me  it  has  been  given, 
This  grandest  privilege, 
To  spend  some  years  of  living, 
In  this  divine  mirage. 

To  hear  the  tender  lisping 
Of  the  gentle  south  monsoon,  *3 
Its  sweetness  freely  sipping, 
Nature's  concentrate  perfume, 
Absorbed  from  sea  girt  Isles, 
Then  o'er  her  heaving  bosom 
Full  many  a  thousand  miles 
Carried  to  this  Garden  Eden. 

To  see  the  glowing  eye 
Of  morning  in  the  East, 
Arising  in  majesty; 
No  other  clime  such  feast 
Of  regal  might  and  power, 
Within  its  light  and  heat, 
A  promise  to  endower 
The  earth  with  life  complete. 


than  in  plants ;  the  former  require  complex,  organic  substances 
(proteids,  carbohydrates,  fats,  etc.)  as  nutriments,  and  secrete 
simple  substances,  as  water,  carbon  dioxide,  urea,  etc.,  as  the 
products  of  catabolism.  In  contradistinction,  the  cells  com- 
posing the  green  tissues  of  plants  are  highly  anabolic,  building 
up  these  very  substances  required  by  the  animal  organism, 
carbohydrates  from  the  carbon  dioxide  of  the  air  by  photo- 
synthesis, and  utilizing  these  substances  with  the  nitrates  and 
other  mineral  salts  absorbed  from  the  soil  in  the  construction 
of  these  complex  compounds,  and  also  in  various  useful  secre- 
tions and  by-products. 

A  balance  is  continually  taking  place  between  these  two 
interdependent  phases  which  is  a  source  of  never  ceasing 
wonder  and  delight  to  the  intelligent  observer,  and  when  fully 
understood,  in  their  relationship  to  the  processes  of  reproduc- 
tion and  their  bearing  on  progressive  development,  their  lesson 
to  the  seeker  of  truth  is  conclusive. 


Here  we  see  Creation, 
As  though  before  the  fall, 
In  the  act  of  waking 
Her  highest  form  of  all, 
By  Her  magic  beauty 
To  primal  self-consciousness, 
In  abundance,  all  necessity 
Supplying  his  weakness. 

Here  man,  his  eyes  uplifted 

To  kindly  Providence, 

Is  clearly  most  unfitted, 

By  his  dependence, 

Himself  to  elevate, 

Control  his  destinies, 

Without  the  guide  and  mandate, 

That  experience  decrees. 

Yet  they  who  come  to  govern, 

Must  also  recognize, 

That  rapid  change  and  aspect  stern, 

With  no  desire  to  sympathize, 

Or  keep  their  ideals  pure, 

Will  cause  degeneration 

To  their  unformed  character, 

Instead  of  elevation. 

As  for  the  natives  gentle, 
They  will  come  to  realize, 
With  joy  and  thanks,  most  grateful, 
That  nature's  ways  are  wise ; 
For  to  them  the  choice  was  given, 
To  escape  life's  fuller  knowledge, 
Man's  deeper  wage  of  sin, 
His  sacrificial  heritage. 


1.  In  ths  poem,  the  writer  has  sought  to  convey  his  idea, 
obtained  from  sixteen  years  of  intimate  observation  of  the 
meaning  of  life  in  a  primitive,  tropical  environment.  Hereto- 
fore man  has  had  little  or  no  necessity  to  be  active  or  progress- 
ive; only  a  hitherto  restricted  external  contact  has  awakened 
appetites,  desires  and  ambitions  which  the  abundance  of  a 
provident  nature  cannot  directly  supply ;  but,  even  so,  the 
relative  ease  with  which  these  can  be  satisfied  does  not  tend 
to  develope  much  individual  capacity,  but  has,  in  a  way,  pro- 
duced a  racial  and  national  self-consciou  sness  which  is 
demanding,  somewhat  incoherently,  its  right  to  a  normal 


Then  again  to  mother  nature, 

Can  turn  and  meditate, 

Her  varied  form  and  feature, 

Sufficing  to  satiate, 

The  needs  of  all  her  children, 

If  only  we  obey, 

The  call  to  duty  bidden 

To  each,  from  day  to  day. 

Learn  in  their  setting  sun, 
Its  glory  in  the  West, 
That  paints  the  mighty  dome 
Above  the  mountain  crest, 
That  lights  their  azure  sea 
With  such  iridescence, 
That  blind  indeed  were  he, 
Its  lesson  not  to  sense. 

And  in  their  dreamful  moon's  delight, 
Whose   beams   through    waving   palm   leaves 

glide, 

That  in  mystery  gild  their  night, 
Find  faith  that  will  abide, 
And  calm  their  vanity, 
Content  their  hearts  and  minds, 
That  in  sharing  nature's  purity 
Still  greater  wealth  shall  find. 

development.  Our  duty,  in  the  premises,  would  seem  to  be, 
out  of  our  wider  and  more  profound  experiences,  to  see  that 
this  privilege  be  not  denied,  but  that  it  be  given  true  and  right 
direction.  In  doing  this  conscientously,  we  will  gain  both  in 
character  and  in  material  well-being,  as  much  or  more  than  we 
give. 

*2.     An  "azotea"  is  a  wide  verandah  or  roof  garden. 

3.  The  monsoons  are  the  periodical  winds  which  blow,  in 
the  Indian  Ocean,  from  the  south  west  from  April  to  October, 
and  from  the  northeast  the  other  part  of  the  year.  During  the 
latter  period  they  bring  with  them  the  rains  which  are  so 
essential  to  the  productivity  of  the  soil,  while  the  former  is 
marked  by  warm,  dry  weather,  during  which  the  crops  are 
planted  and  harvested.  They  fulfill  functions  similar,  but 
simpler  and  more  benign,  to  those  performed  by  the  ruder 
climatic  changes  of  the  temperate  zones. 

When  one  can  be  located  so  as  to  receive  the  benefit  of 
these  usually  gentle  breezes,  the  climate  is  as  near  that  of 
paradise  as  is  conceivable. 


NATURE'S  SECRET. 
(SEEK  THOU  THE  LIGHT). 

Nature,  in  the  making 

Of  this  good  old  mundial  sphere 

Pursued  a  wondrous  plan, 

Her  secret  deeply  hiding 

In  the  slefish  blindness 

Of  Her  highest  product,  Man. 

Where'ere  our  eyes  we  turn, 
We  see  Her  just  beyond, 
Whispering,   calling,   beckoning, 
Yet  ne'er  the  lesson  learn, 
Although  'tis  written  clear 
In  all  things,  dead  and  living. 

Her  bounty,  freely  given 

To  each  of  us  and  all, 

We  grasp  like  misers : 

Thus  Her  hope  is  fallen 

By  mental  man  destroyed, 

Self-centered  cowards !     Traitors  ! 

Think  ye  Her  patience  endless? 
Seek  the  lesson  in  the  skies, 
Of  Her  never  ceasing  effort 
To  devise,  some  worthier  process, 
Which  gained,  will  then  consign 
Us  to  oblivion  and  forget. 

Consider  ye  the  lily, 
The  horse,  the  bee,  the  bird, 
With  joy  fulfilling  duty; 
Then  ask  thine  Ego,  silly, 
What  use  thy  mental  manhood, 
If  not  to  seek  the  truth. 

Meditate  thy  lowly  origin, 

Learn  it  whence  thou  wilt, 

In  science  or  theology  ; 

Nor  think  thus  far  hadst  come 

Save  as  by  heritage 

Ol  sacrifice  to  knowledge. 

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Nor  that  thy  course  yet  finished; 

The  heights  as  yet  attained, 

Of  Nature's  projection; 

While  yet  through  ye  is  tarnished, 

By  selfish  evil  stained, 

Her  efforts  for  perfection. 

This  thine  end  and  aim; 
To  develope  within  thee, 
Perfect  Spirituality, 
Immortality  to  gain ; 
Throw  off  thy  finite  fetters 
For  Infinite  Eternity. 

Know  ye  thou  art  in  prison, 
Enchained  by  worldliness, 
Self  thy  tyrant  keeper ; 
Straining  for  light  and  freedom 
Within  thy  very  being, 
Unselfish  spirit  suffers. 

In  answer  to  thy  failure, 
A  sign  and  proof  was  given, 
Thy  weakness  to  assist; 
Of  perfection  in  Nature, 
Her  ultimate  sacrifice, 
That  faith  on  earth  persist, 

Who  then,  as  now,  for  gold  was  sold, 
His  life  and  death  a  parable 
That  time  shall  surely  fathom; 
The  simple  meaning  true  unfold, 
That  Nature's  God  is  crucified 
'Till  mankind  conquers  mammon. 


MY    ISLE. 

Seekest  thou  contement  and  peace  and  happiness? 

Come  with  me. 
I  know  of  an  Isle,  in  a  rainbow  sea, 

Of  blessedness, 
Where  pain  and  sorrow  cease. 

As  we  sail  along,  we  will  leap, 

Leaving  the  cowards  behind ; 

In  its  waters  cleanse  deep, 

Bid  farewell  to  the  blind ; 

And  our  faith  will  bear  us  along 

Until  we  reach  the  shore, 

Where  our  hearts  will  join  in  the  song, 

Joy  and  gladness  forevermore. 

Wouldst  know  the  secret  of  wisdom  and  knowledge? 

Come  with  me. 
To  my  wonderful  Isle  in  its  magic  sea, 

Whose  outer  edge 
Is  where  ignorance  turns  to  perception. 

When  our  feet  touch  its  golden  strand, 

And  the  light  in  its  fullness  we  see, 

In  the  beat  of  the  surge  on  the  sand, 

Joining  deep  in  complete  harmony : 

In  the  voices  that  laden  the  breeze, 

By  the  tones  that  burden  the  song, 

In  the  chords  as  they  strike  through  the  trees, 

Inspire  perfect  realization. 

Is  freedom  from  sin  they  desire,  and  rest? 

Come  with  me. 
To  my  peaceful  Isle,  in  its  glistening  sea, 

And  know  the  best, 
That  faith  and  hope  can  require. 

Pillowed  in  roses  and  moss, 
Whose  perfume  supreme  and  divine, 
Is  wafted  through  garden  and  forest, 
Filled  with  glory  from  every  clime ; 
Hate,  passion,  envy  and  jealousy 
In  exile  without  the  door ; 
Love,  faith,  hope  and  charity 
The  keys  to  admit  rich  and  poor. 

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REALIZATION. 

Across  the  breadth  of  the  land, 
We  see  it  full  teeming  with  life, 

Strata  on  strata  rising, 

Masses  by  classes  surviving, 
Seeking  outlet  on  every  hand, 
Facing  inevitable  strife ; 
That  shall  teach  every  state  its  condition 
And  relation  to  approaching  fruition. 

Science  is  learning  the  secret, 

And  conquering  the  cause  of  disease, 

Aided  by  sanitation, 

Supported  by  education, 
All  life,  noxious  and  parasite, 
Destroying  and  giving  release; 
Removing  this  cause  and  condition 
That  retards  the  approaching  fruition. 

Ingenuity  by  mechanism 

Is  increasing  productiveness; 

By  means  of  dynamic  power, 

Releasing  vitalic  labor; 
Elevating  from  their  abysm, 
Vital  units  in  form  rendered  useless ; 
Whose  decrease  but  marks  the  condition 
That  foreshadows  the  approaching  fruition. 

The  nations  shall  yet  be  united 
In  true  community  of  interest, 

Recognizing  interdependence 

Of  regions,  zones  and  races. 
Governments  shall  everywhere  be  freighted 
With  efforts  supreme  against  contest ; 
Christ's  mission  on  earth  this  condition, 
The  bud  of  approaching  fruition. 

Society  itself  is  reacting, 
Even  religion,  sect  and  creed ; 

In  closer  rapproachment. 

Their  lesson  learnt, 
That  truth  is  in  everything; 
Pure  philosophy  the  seed; 
That  teaches  man  his  condition 
And  place  in  approaching  fruition. 


Capital  and  labor  organic, 

At  last  are  finding  their  sphere, 

Of  action  coordinate, 

In  union  cooperate 
Harnessed  to  law  with  rein  and  bit, 
Guiding  their  progress  and  purpose  here ; 
By  struggles  grim  shall  be  taught  their  condition 
And  part  in  advancing  approaching  fruition. 

Wealth  and  power  are  learning, 
Their  utter  worthlessness, 

If  gained  and  spent, 

Without  intent, 
To  satisfy  their  longing, 
To  lift  up  God's  masses, 
Unconsciously  by  their  condition, 
Showing  the  earth  is  approaching  fruition. 

In  the  debris  that  marks  the  pathway, 
To  the  heights  of  present  attainment, 

On  nature's  pages 

Down  the  ages 
There's  the  impress  deep  on  her  sub-conscious 

memory 

Which  arises  to  promise  fulfilment, 
And  illumines  God's  recorded  condition, 
To  have  faith  in  the  approaching  fruition. 

Even  womankind  has  broken  her  fetters, 
That  bound  her  in  bonds  from  below; 

Demanding  and  taking, 

Her  just  part  in  creating, 
Not  alone  purer  mansions  by  nature, 
But  environments  where  clean  souls  may  grow, 
Thus  showing  God  needs  her  condition 
To  perfect  His  approaching  fruition. 

So  we'll  dedicate  our  free  intellects, 

To  aid  in  the  consummation 
Of  this  wonderful  labor 
Of  God  Almighty  through  nature, 

By  broadening  the  room  at  the  apex, 

Of  her  pyramid  "Evolution". 

Thus  proving  we  know  our  condition, 

And  our  place  in  approaching  fruition. 

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And  oft'  though  the  powers  of  pessimism, 
Lead  us  down  through  the  depths  of  hell ; 

Need  we  weep  and  pine? 

While  God's  spark  Divine, 
The  pure,  sweet  tones  of  His  optimism, 
Strikes  full  and  clear  as  from  a  vibrant  bell, 
With  His  living  proof  through  all  changing  conditions, 
That  His  love  on  earth  shall  attain  full  fruition. 


*NOTE:  This  poem  was  written  several  years  ago,  while  in  the 
Philippines.  The  fourth  verse  then  read  in  the  present,  active  tense, 
but  has  since  been  adjusted  to  bring  it  into  harmony  with  actualities 
in  Europe,  which  does  not  in  any  wise  effect  the  poem's  significance  as 
the  motive  in  the  first  stanza  shows  the  writer's  realization  that  more 
or  less  profound  cataclysmic  action  was  still  necessary  to  mold 
humanity  into  harmony.  The  last  verse  was  added  also  for  a  similar 
reason.  Thus  the  war  in  Europe  is  made  to  occupy  its  true  place  and 
importance  in  the  scheme  of  things;  that  of  an  incident,  necessary 
in  its  implications,  but  unworthy  of  being  elevated  to  the  heights  the 
retro-actionaries  would  have  us  believe.  Its  purpose  is.  and  must  be 
salutory,  and  sooner  or  later,  by  this  or  some  other  cataclysm, 
humanity  shall  finally  be  brought  into  adjustment  in  their  national 
and  racial  relationships,  as  well  as  individual,  in  harmony  with  the 
Divine  Will,  Ideal  and  Purpose  of  God. 

The  writer  hopes  that  the  time  is  ripe  for  the  establishment 
of  this  realized  relationship,  in  this  country  at  least,  as  the 
result  of  free,  conscious,  voluntary  conviction  which  may  be 
expressed  in  peaceful  action  in  such  wise  as  to  serve  all 
nations  and  all  races  as  a  model  of  this  ideal. 


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THE  GUARDIANS. 

I. 

Modern  woman;  Caucasian  woman; 
Nature  is  weighing  you  now  in  her  balance ; 
Occident  and  orient  are  now  in  her  scales, 
To  be  measured  and  voided  if  false  to  their  chance. 

Nature  don't  care  and  nature  don't  listen ; 
To  your  vaulting  esthetics ;  your  loud-sounding  noise ; 
She  won't  take  excuses  or  hear  your  pet  vagaries ; 
She  demands  that  true  goods  be  delivered,  not  toys. 

With  you,  in  full  faith,  she  banked  all  her  hopes ; 
Invested  in  you  all  her  savings  and  treasure ; 
Soon  she  will  ask  a  full  statement  accounting; 
How  will  your  merchandise  balance  and  measure? 

Come  down  from  the  clouds ;  attend  to  your  business ; 

None  will  dare  rob  or  deny  you  full  pay ; 

For  the  excellence  of  service  and  the  beauty  of  sacrifice, 

To  The  Christ,  not  to  men,  for  this  strength  you  must  pray. 

II. 

Modern  man;  Caucasion  man: 

Think  not  you  escape  unscathed  if  you  shirk ; 

Money  and  glory  are  lighter  than  feathers, 

If  not  weighted  and  freighted  with   God's  consecrate  work. 

God  does  not  care  and  God  does  not  listen 

To  your  scoundrel  complaint  of  your  companion  woman : 

'Tis  yours  to  cherish,  uplift  and  assist  her, 

Not  to  degrade  and  then  spurn  and  abandon. 

Nature  to  woman  entrusted  her  treasure ; 
Of  you  God  demands  self-control  and  dominion ; 
His  covenant  sealed  with  the  blood  of  the  cross 
Till  The  Christ  reappears  to  establish  His  kingdom. 

Then  awake  and  return  from  the  tending  of  swine, 
From  your  vile  mess  of  pottage  and  husks ; 
Your  Father  is  waiting  and  longing  to  greet  you, 
If  you'll  only  surrender  and  return  to  your  trust. 

In  the  reference  to  "woman"  in  the  preceding  poem,  "Realization", 
the  writer  recognized  woman's  right  to  extend  her  sphere  of  influence 
in  a  rational  way.  But  it  is  the  height  of  folly  for  her,  as  it  is  also 
for  man,  not  to  recognize  their  limitations. 

Woman  is  and  must  be  predominently  anabolic.  Man  is  and  must 
be  predominently  catabolic.  The  two  must  harmonize  on  the  common 
plane  of  metabolism.  This  is  only  idealy  possible  when  they  mutually 
seek  for  understanding  at  the  fount  and  source  of  these  processes,  in 
prayer  and  communion  with  God  and  with  nature  and  with  one 
another. 

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CONSECRATED. 

To  feel  pure  and  clean, 
Freed  from  sin  and  desire, 
Satisfied  with  duty  well  done 
Whatever  reward  it  may  bring ; 
Knowing  beyond  peradventure. 
Filled  to  your  depths  with  content, 
Heart,  mind  and  soul  satisfied, 
At  peace  with  God  and  with  nature. 

If  you  want  to  do  wrong, 

Then  you  can't  do  wrong, 

Isn't  it  wonderful! 

Isn't  it  beautiful ! 

Isn't  it  peaceful ! 


To  be  sure  beyond  question  or  doubt, 
That  your  debt  to  the  world  shall  be  paid, 
Fulfilled  and  fulfilling  true  aim 
In  action,  in  deed,  word  and  thought; 
Seeking  not  man's  applause  or  his  praise, 
Accepting  good  or  evil,  the  same, 
Knowing  that  truth  will  suffice, 
To  vanity  no  longer  a  slave. 

If  you  want  to  do  wrong, 

Then  you  can't  do  wrong, 

Isn't  it  wonderful ! 

Isn't  it  beautiful ! 

Isn't  it  peaceful ! 


To  see  in  its  fulness  the  light, 
As  it  flows  in  heat  from  the  sky, 
As  it  gleams  and  glistens  the  wave, 
Shining  by  day  and  by  night. 
To  realize  our  conception  of  things 
Is  but  proof  of  the  wonder  beyond, 
To  which  this  life  and  its  labor 
Completed,  perfect  answer  brings. 

If  you  want  to  do  wrong. 

Then  you  can't  do  wrong, 

Isn't  it  wonderful ! 

Isn't  it  beautiful ! 

Isn't  it  peaceful ! 


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To  be  in  complete  harmony, 
With  each  impulse  supreme, 
That  flows  through  the  universe, 
In  perfect  synchrony ; 
To  feel  in  the  depths  of  your  being 
Each  string  of  will  true  keyed, 
To  react  to  the  delicate  touch 
Of  Sensate  Nature's  fingering. 

If  you  want  to  do  wrong, 

Then  you  can't  do  wrong, 

Isn't  it  wonderful ! 

Isn't  it  beautiful ! 

Isn't  it  peaceful ! 


To  read  the  promise  that's  written, 

More  clear  than  that  on  the  wall, 

In  geology,  botany,  biology, 

Astronomy,  force,  all  Creation : 

Thus  to  turn  unfraid  to  the  future, 

Facing  birth,  life  and  death  and  their  stings, 

Secure  in  the  confident  justice, 

To  be  measured  by  the  Almighty  of  Nature. 

If  you  want  to  do  wrong, 

Then  you  can't  do  wrong, 

Isn't  it  wonderful ! 

Isn't  it  beautiful ! 

Isn't  it  peaceful ! 


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HUMANITY  AWAKEN. 


Oh  !  for  words  to  awaken 

The  world  to  appreciation 

And  knowledge  of  itself. 

To  make  men  think  and  ponder, 

To  question  and  to  wonder, 

Their  why  and  wherefore  felt. 

Oh!  for  power  and  command, 
To  make  them  understand 
Their  futile  efforts, 
To  find  joy  in  wealth  and  pleasure. 
Gained,  but  lost  the  treasure, 
That  sacrifice  imparts. 

Oh!  to  clearly  show  the  cost, 
That  by  winning  is  lost, 
Beyond  redemption; 
Of  trying  to  repay 
When  nearing  their  day 
Of  justification. 

That  they   seize   their  opportunity, 

In  surrender  to  duty 

While  yet  they  may. 

By  learning  truth  and  wisdom 

Taught  clearly  in  the  system 

Of  nature's  way. 

Oh !  to  aid  them  to  felicity 
To  be  gained  by  simple  purity 
Of  thought  and  motive; 
By  lifting  up  the  prostrate, 
Giving  happiness  to  elevate, 
Their  hope  superlative. 

Oh !  ye  men  and  women, 
Ye  blind  to  every  vision, 
Around,  about; 
Look  and  see  and  listen, 
Awaken  to  your  mission, 
No  longer  doubt. 


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Oh!  ye  blind  that  lead  the  blind, 
Rise  up  and  free  your  minds, 
Of  unfaithfulness. 
Examine  and  give  credence 
To  nature's  truth  and  evidence, 
True  Christliness. 


Away  ye  creeds  unfounded, 

By  human  weakness  bounded, 

In  misconception. 

Suffice  the  simple  teaching, 

Christ's  life  and   death   beseeching, 

Self-martyrdom 

And  give  to  patient  science, 
Support  and  full  compliance, 
In  trust  and  faith. 
That  through  her  shall  discover, 
Our  right  to  live  recover, 
And  conquer  death. 


This  poem  was  written  without  a  knowledge,  since  obtained,  of 
the  completeness  with  which  modern  theology,  generally  speaking, 
has  adapted  and  harmonized  itself,  to  the  new  dispensation  of  truth 
founded  upon  the  facts  of  science;  and  also  with  only  a  very  academic 
knowledge,  since  happily  verified  as  taking  place  literally,  of  the 
grand  reciprocity  of  action,  reaction  and  interaction  of  proof  which 
is  taking  place  between  the  two,  leading  to  a  correlation  of  under- 
standing between  two  interdependent  modes  of  comprehension,  the 
reveled,  inspired  and  emotional,  and  the  experimental  and  scientific. 
However  the  necessity  for  a  fuller  appreciation  of  this  interde- 
pendence is  still  very  great,  especially  among  certain  reactionary 
sects  and  some  recent  spiritual  movements  of  the  purely  emotional 
type,  which  still  blindly  seek  to  deny,  stem  and  retard  this  united 
current  of  truth,  the  one  branch  of  which  is  as  truly  divine  as  the 
best  that  can  be  claimed  by  the  other;  and  also,  in  order  that  all  those 
blasphemers  of  the  name  of  God  and  of  Christ  Jesus,  who,  claiming 
direct  heritage  of  divine  authority,  either  temporal  or  spiritual,  seek 
for  their  own  advantage  to  enslave  and,  as  a  consequence,  degrade 
humanity,  by  the  very  means  which  God  gave  for  his  freedom  and 
salvation,  his  independent  intellect  and  judgment. 

Science,  as  it  becomes  fuller  understood,  will  act  as  a  clarifying 
agent  for  truth,  permitting  in  a  greater  degree  than  heretofore,  and 
indeed  compelling  eventually  the  realization  and  comprehension  of 
truth  and  of  righteousness  in  a  manner  that  will  purify  all  our  rela- 
tionships with  one  another  and  with  God. 


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THE  CATACLYSM   OF  HATE. 

The  Dragons  of  Hate  are  rampant, 
Unfurled  are  the  banners  of  war, 
With  peal  of  cannon  and  shriek  of  shell, 
The  Nations  of  Europe  rush  down  into  hell, 
Deaf  to  the  trumpet  sound,  lost  in  the  roar, 
First  call  of  the  Master  to  Judgment. 

Then  enter  ye  slaves  of  passion, 
With  your  surfeit  of  doubt  and  distrust, 
The  arena  is  ready,  and  hungry  the  beast, 
Forward  then  !     Steady !     On  with  the  feast ! 


Render  your  Ceasers  their  dues  of  lust, 

Reek  not  nor  reckon  the  weak  that  are  crushed, 

The  weeping  and  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth 

Are  but  echos  that  rise  from  the  swords  ye  unsheath, 

The  hearths  that  are  blackened,  the  babes  left  unfed, 

Wives,  mothers  and  sisters  alone  with  their  dread. 


Drink  deep  of  the  cup,  brimful,  overflowing 

With  the  gall  and  the  wormwood  of  forty  years  brewing. 

Loudly  acclaim  your  proud  fetish  of  race, 

Yea.  loud  must  it  be  if  it  drown  your  disgrace. 

Praise  ye,  your  false  prophets  of  power  and  might 

Mayhap  by  your  praises  the  black  shall  be  white. 

Widespread  the  swath  of  the  earth's  tribulation, 

That  out  of  her  anguish  may  arise  new  creation; 

Feed  well  your  monsters  with  envy  and  hate, 

Thus  the  earth  ye  shall  free  from  their  burden  ingrate, 

The  vipers  that  too  long  have  fed  at  her  breast, 

Deaf  to  her  passionate  love  and  behest, 

That  all  her  counsels  to  patience  have  spurned, 

Yea,  even  the  Gospels  of  Christ  have  unlearned. 


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But  to  those  of  us  granted  true  vision  and  light, 
The  Nations  The  Christ  has  placed  on  His  right, 
Let  us  hasten  and  heed  to  His  trumpet  call, 
Let  us  trim  our  wicks,  fill  our  lamps  with  oil, 
Make  haste  for  the  bridegroom  cometh, 
And  woe  unto  them  whom  His  coming  shunneth. 
Yes,  hasten  and  cleanse  out  our  platter  and  cup, 
For  His  service  ready  when  he  cometh  to  sup, 
From  extortion  and  excess  purified, 
Not  only  the  surface,  but  also  inside. 


Lift  high  our  voices  in  anthems  of  praise, 

With  His  crown  of  thorns  on  our  banner  raise, 

Him  be  our  mottoe,  in  His  Love,  hope  and  trust ; 

For  Christ  is  no  myth,  but  God's  Prince  of  Compassion. 


For  to  Him  alone  shall  hate  recumbent, 

Yield  up  the  red  banners  of  war, 

When  His  Spirit  shall  conquer  o'er  cannon  and  shell, 

Then  all  nations,  new  born,  shall  arise  from  hell, 

To  welcome  His  trumpet  sound  evermore, 

Calling  all  mankind  to  Judgment. 


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THE  JUDGMENT  SEAT. 

Resting  one  night  in  my  hammock, 

Eyes  unseeing,  affixed  on  space, 

Thought  and  consciousness  afloat 

In  exploration  of  the  maze, 

Beyond  man's  realm  and  limitation, 

In  freedom  unconfined, 

A  contact  struck  of  profound  sensation, 

That  carried  impress  to  my  mind. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat:, 
In  measure  clear  and  deep, 
Each  mighty  throb  pulsating, 
From  a  centre  gravitating, 
To  each  distant  sun,  and  star,  and  satellite. 


And  on  each  impulse  glowing, 
With  energy  supreme, 
I  felt  my  spirit  flowing 
And  expanding  in  the  stream ; 
Permeated  with  a  vigor 
From  each  recurring  rhythm, 
Like  the  access  from  the  motor 
Of  a  mighty  organism. 
Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
Resistence  meant  defeat, 
Magnetic  force  attracting, 
By  its  influence  abstracting. 
Life's  universal  fruit, 


In  the  rapid  flowing  currents, 

Uniting  forming  rivers, 

Soon  the  centre  of  convergence 

Reached,  within  the  Heart  of  Nature. 

And  now  began  a  process 

Within  this  organism, 

Sifting,  weighing,  dealing  justice 

With  a  terrible  precision. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
Each  action  full,  complete, 
One  absolute  decision, 
No  court  of  revision, 
For  influence,  wealth  or  legalite. 


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Each  unit  of  life  vitalic 
Passing  through  in  quick  succession 
Nature's  centres  organic, 
Formed  indeed  a  rare  procession. 
From  the  simple  force  atomic, 
Through  the  grades  of  evolution, 
Molecular,  plasmic,  embryonic, 
To  the  highest  unit,  human. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
Spirit  perfect  seek, 
Materiality  resisting, 
Capable  of  existing, 
In  Eternal  Infinite. 


And  among  the   countless  millions, 
Here  and  there  one  appeared, 
Rising  as  on  mighty  pinions, 
Self-sustaining,  unafeared. 
And  to  these  a  portal  opened, 
Lighting  up  the  mass  of  sadness, 
With  a  moment's  vision  blessed, 
Filled  with  hope,  and  joy,  and  gladness. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
They  who  enter  must  repeat, 
By  effort  striving, 
And  achieving, 
Soul's  dominion,  self  defeat. 


Thence  the  process  led  us  further, 
Through  a  multitude  of  stations, 
Cleansing,  building  up  of  character, 
Purer,  deeper  imaginations, 
With  a  broader  width  of  purpose, 
Confirming  nature's  laws,  immutable, 
Fixed  on  evolution's  basis, 
Even  where  they  seem  inscrutable. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
The  labor  is  now  replete, 
With  the  essence 
Of  nature's  presence, 
Resume  thy  service  incomplete. 


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And  some  there  were  had  entered, 
Clothed  in  purple  robes,  and  gold. 
Returning  now  pride  humbled, 
To  delve  among  the  mould. 
Still  others  in  happy  absence, 
The  accepted  of  the  Blest, 
Had  suffered  earthly  sacrifice, 
To  find  at  last  their  rest. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
In  sums  of  force  and  heat, 
This  fluid  impregnating, 
In  vitality  dessimating, 
All  the  universe  from  nature's  seat. 


Conforming  to  their  merit, 

In  advancing  nature's  progress, 

Resumed  atom,  force  and  unit, 

Their  place  within  her  service, 

And    some    there    were    who    mounted    high. 

But  many  retrograded, 

And  some  of  common  fibre  ply, 

Like  myself,  were  reinstated. 

Beat:  Beat:  Beat: 
Be  thou  no  longer  weak, 
Spirit  reincarnated, 
Force  regenerated, 
Volition  free,  thy  duty  seek. 


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THE   CROSS   ROAD. 

They,  who  stand  on  life's  pinnacle  "Time," 
And  gaze  back  o'er  the  weary  roads, 
That  stretch  afar,  and  up  and  down, 
Till  the  view  is  lost  in  the  mist  that  clouds 
And  closes  each  door  at  the  horizon, 
Must  have  felt  the  sting  of  a  whip  and  goad. 
For  none  may  come  and  none  may  go, 
Without  sounding  the  depths  of  weal  and  woe. 
From  some  pinnacle  deep  in  the  shades  of  hell, 
From  some  hill  or  crag,  hear  the  notes  of  a  bell, 
That  calls  for  an  answering  echo. 

Then  slowly  awaken  the  senses  asleep, 
Drunken  and  sodden  with  pleasure  and  lust, 
To  the  resounding  blows  and  the  marching  feet, 
Of  the  hosts  and  armies  midst  the  smoke  and  dust, 
In  the  throes  of  hell's  dark  infernal  heat, 
That  blinds  out  the  light  of  hope  and  trust, 
For  none  may  come  and  none  may  go, 
Without  sounding  the  depths  of  weal  and  woe, 
From  some  pinnacle  deep  in  the  shades  of  hell, 
From  some  hill  or  crag,  hear  the  notes  of  a  bell, 
That  calls  for  an  answering  echo. 

Grim  and  stark  are  the  phantoms  seen, 
That  struggle  in  muck  and  slime, 
And  everywhere,  as  the  sight  grows  keen, 
To  the  mirrored  reflections  of  error  and  crime, 
One  face  distorted  and  low  and  mean, 
Slowly  evolves  and  that  is  mine. 

For  none  may  come  and  none  may  go, 
Without  sounding  the  depths  of  weal  and  woe, 
From  some  pinnacle  deep  in  the  shades  of  hell, 
From  some  hill  or  crag,  hear  the  notes  of  a  bell, 
That  calls  for  an  answering  echo. 

Heart  and  mind  from  the  horrors  recoil, 

The  strength  we  had  felt  is  lost, 

We  tremble,  and  falter,  and  stumble,  and  fall, 

On  the  brink  of  the  precipice  see  the  cost, 

So  out  of  our  anguish  is  born  a  soul, 

That  seizes  and  clings  to  the  cross. 

For  none  may  come  and  none  may  go, 
Without  sounding  the  depths  of  weal  and  woe, 
From  some  pinnacle  deep  in  the  shades  of  hell, 
From  some  hill  or  crag,  hear  the  notes  of  a  bell, 
And  return  the  glad  answering  echo. 

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WHAT  BOON  IS  THIS  TO  DIE. 

Through  bars  of  dim  and  misty  sight, 
Imprisoned  spirit  strains  for  light. 

A  tired  voice  in  sad  refrain, 

Asks  freedom  from  its  walls  of  pain ; 

Its  life  of  penance  here  on  earth, 

Where  birth  is  death  and  death  is  birth.     *1 

From  deep  within  I  hear  this  cry, 
What  boon  is  this  to  die ! 

To  lay  down  life's  accumulation, 
Of  experience  and  information, 

Vain  regrets  and  sorrow,  grief, 
Empty  joys  and  pleasures  brief, 

This  body  weary  of  the  way 
That  leads  from  cradle  to  decay; 

Filled  with  knowledge  of  its  failure, 
To  serve  the  needs  of  mother  nature. 

Glad  to  welcome  full  reward 
Of  justice  measured  in  accord, 

With  the  use  made  of  the  talents, 
Endowed  at  birth,  hope  in  the  balance, 

To  find  a  statement  credit, 
Aye  de  mi !  should  it  be  debit. 

Still  e'en  thus,  in  trust  and  faith, 
Gladly  pass  the  doors  of  death ; 

Sure  that  at  the  judgment  seat 

An  attorney  will  defend  the  weak.    *2 


*1.  In  every  true  sense,  as  we  are  at  present  constituted,  birth  is 
the  equivalent  of  death,  while  death  in  its  truest  reality  is  birth.  See 
"The  Judgment  Seat,"  page  19  and  also  in  the  last  few  stanzas  of  the 
present  poem  for  two  true  conceptions  of  the  real  state,  meaning, 
and  condition  of  death. 

*2.  In  "The  Judgment  Seat"  again  referred  to,  Verse  3,  an  ab- 
solute judgment  is  implied,  a  judgment  based  on  perfect  justice, 

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One,  who  from  experience, 

Can  plead  the  cause  of  man's  defense. 

He,  who  here  attained  perfection, 
His  life  of  sacrifice,  His  Passion, 

For  us  a  willing  sign  and  proof 
To  guide  us  if  we  but  behoof. 

On  Him  alone  can  we  depend, 
All  of  us,  who  at  the  end, 

Review  a  life  of  fallacy, 

Through  Him  alone  can  hope  for  mercy. 

That  even  failure  to  advance, 
May  yet  obtain  another  chance, 

To  suffer  not  the  degradation 
We  truly  merit  in  the  station, 

To  which  the  future  us  assign ; 
Woe  to  him  whose  sins  consign 

Without  the  pale  of  penitence  ; 
Woe  to  him  his  recompense! 

To  him  no  future  but  to  slave, 

Nor  know  the  sweetness  of  the  grave. 

Enchained  mayhap  to  mechanism, 
Without  the  realm  of  vitalism. 


automatically  applied  in  accord  with  all  the  known  qualities  of  God, 
as  shown  in  His  infallible  natural  laws,  but  in  the  execution  of  such 
a  judicial  process,  the  quality  of  mercy  for  the  weak  is  of  necessity 
an  integral  part.  Yet  more,  its  widest  application  to  man,  may,  and 
in  all  probabilities  was,  permanently  affected  when  the  Human 
Christ  was  evolved;  or  this  could  be  better  expressed  by  saying,  when 
the  first  human  organism  was  perfected  to  react  truly  to  the  Holy 
Spirit  of  God,  a  Being  capable  of  expressing  perfectly  by  word, 
precept  and  example  in  terms  that  could  not  be  denied,  the  true 
nature  of  The  Infinite  and  Eternal  Father;  so  that  this  quality  of 
mercy,  of  which  all  human  judicial  systems  have  taken  cognizance, 
was,  we  may  well  believe,  through  the  life  experiences  and  death  of 
Christ,  limited  and  qualified  so  as  to  involve  the  essential  Doctrine  of 
Christ,  that  atonement  and  of  salvation,  whereby  anyone  believing 
and  accepting,  in  whatsoever  degree,  The  Christ,  such  belief  and 
acceptance  should  eternally  and  automatically  qualify  the  Judgment 
of  God  in  relation  to  such,  thereby  becoming  a  newly  exacted 
infallible  law,  to  save  such  from  retrocession  below  the  confines  of 
the  human  race,  but  not  within  these  confines. 

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Perhaps  to  live  in  chemic  action, 
To  long  exist  in  putrefaction, 

Or  bound  within  some  static  force, 
A  slave  to  law  without  recourse, 

Or  hope  to  e'er  escape, 

No  power  of  will  to  elevate, 

Save  as  by  action  of  good  persistent, 
Shall  conquer  evil's  strength  resistent, 

And  grow  through  "evoltion," 
To  simple  plasmic  attribution. 

Nature's  lowest  unit  sensate, 
Whose  functions  weak,  discriminate. 

Its  power  highly  centralized 
Within  a  nucleus  organized. 

In  which  low  state  of  aggregation 
Is  seen  the  model  of  creation. 

The  record  clear  epitomized 

In  chromatic  fibres  sensitized.     *3 

Where  first  we  find  that  sacrifice 

Through  birth  and  death  is  the  key  to  life ; 

Wherein  the  cell  by  segmentation, 
Martyrs  self  in  act  fruition; 

Obeying  laws  of  higher  good; 
Its  joy  unselfish  parenthood. 

And  by  this  nascent  fealty 

To  creation's  plan  attained  ability 

To  join  in  action  mutual, 

In  primal  union  governmental, 

Developed  parts  by  variation, 
Sensate  organs  by  adaptation. 

*3.  The  peculiar  attributes  and  qualities  of  the  chromatic  fibres  or 
chromosomes  are  more  fully  referred  to  in  "The  Wanderer"  and  in 
the  footnote  on  page  31. 

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Conditioned  by  environment 
Every  cell  its  lesson  learnt, 

To  do  its  duty  and  obey, 

A  centered  will,  unto  which  they, 

React  as  we  to  impulse  also 
From  a  source  without  our  Ego. 

Mighty  force  of  evil  good, 
In  its  dual  qualitude. 

Evil  ever  the  pole  resistent, 
Good  restrains  to  act  consistent. 

Evil,  ignorant,  fearful,  vain, 

Good,  intelligent,  courageous,  sane. 

Evil,  slave  of  lustful  pleasure, 

Good,  fullgrown  to  freeman's  stature. 

Evil  narrow,  conservative. 
Good,  a  radical,  positive, 

Seeking  variation,  progress,  change, 
Filled  with  theories,  new  and  strange. 

Dreamchild,  conceived  by  faith  and  love, 
Spirit  descended  from  above, 

Crowned  with  beauty,  joy  and  grace, 
Trust  and  hope  shines  on  his  face ; 

That  wings  imagination's  soaring  flight, 
That  fires  reasons  burning  light, 

Gilds  the  tongue  of  eloquence 
And  thrills  the  lyre  to  cadence ; 

Source  and  power  of  genius, 
Inspired  to  guide  and  lead  us. 

But  evil  is  our  rigid  heritage, 
In  error  and  sin  his  parentage. 

An  old  and  hoary  miser  grasping 

Earth's   present   joys    and   pleasures   blasting 

All  the  hope  of  man's  redemption 
By  his  narrow  self-pretention. 


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Anchored  deep  in  earth  material, 
Bars  our  spirit's  flight  aerial ; 

Makes  us  weakly  falter,  fear, 
Nor  nature's  cry  to  battle  hear; 

Leads  us  the  cowards  course  to  take 
Of  jealous  vanity,  sin,  and  hate: 

So  blinds  our  eyes  and  clouds  our  sense, 
No  vision  true  may  reach  conscience ; 

Glorifies  stagnation,  vice, 

Nor  sees  decay  and  death  the  price, 

That  leads  to  degradation, 
Reversion  and  degeneration. 

But  Thou  we  thank  that  optimism 
Shall  ever  conquer  pessimism; 

That  no  mistake  e'er  made  by  good, 
Where  selfish  evil  was  subdued, 

But  serves  true  purpose  in  creation, 
Whose  merit  at  the  consummation, 

Shall  surely  reap  its  prize, 

Of  meed  and  honor  due  the  wise, 

They,  who  suffer  willing  sacrifice, 
Of  self  to  aid  advance,  the  price. 

For  truth  is  progress  neutral, 
Child,  of  growth,  experimental, 

Attained  by  action  and  reaction, 
Advance,  mistake  and  retrocession; 

But  naught  once  gained  surrenders, 
Its  lessons  buried  deep  remembers, 

Which  in  their  time  and  place  arise, 
Confounding  fools  and  overwise, 

Whose  minds  affixed  on  speculation, 
Pretend  to  rise  beyond  their  station, 


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In  truth's  one  guiding  quality, 
Of  simple  sacrifice  to  duty; 

By  study  and  obedience 

To  the  lessons  taught  by  experience. 

Wherein  'tis  seen  that  right  and  wrong 
Are  products  of  opinion; 

Must  not  with  their  prototypes, 
Be  confounded,  virtue,  vice. 

The  former  mayhap  but  be  mistake, 
The  latter  habit  or  abuse  will  make. 

Know  that  all  things  have  a  use, 
And  as  well  a  reverse  abuse ; 

That  in  equilibrium, 

Truth  is  found  and  right  opinion ; 

At  whose  habit  to  attain, 
Plato's  ancient  virtues  strain. 

While,  ever,  rigid,  dogmatic  creed, 
To  stagnation  and  retrocession  lead. 

Note  the  steps  of  "evolution," 
Pharisaic  creed,  Christ's  revolution, 

Retaining  true  Mosaic  law, 
Wherein  experience  found  no  flaw, 

From  out  the  chaff  of  human  weakness, 
Sifting  all  the  proven  greatness, 

Engrafting  from  Confucianism, 
Humanity's  fundamental  idealism ; 

Unto  others  even  do 

As  wouldst  have  them  do  to  you ; 

Guiding  force  reciprocal, 
Christianity's  power  centripetal 

Herein  is  where  volition  lies, 
Man's  present  hope  of  future  rise ; 


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Learn  each  his  own  responsibility, 
Then  accept  with  deep  humility, 

His  place  and  rank  and  station, 

With  perfect  knowledge  and  realization, 

That  existence,  present,  past  and  future, 
Is  something  permanent,  fixed  and  sure, 

Unto  which  we  all  pertain, 
Each  his  own  reward  and  blame, 

Is  and  has  and  will  be  measured, 
According  to  the  lessons  treasured, 

Absorbed,  fixed  or  lost, 

But  woe  to  him,  this  last,  the  cost; 

Though  he  be  crowned  with  wealth  and  power, 
Or  falsely  gained  human  honor; 

Woe  to  him,  when  death  shall  toll, 

His  blackened,  weakened,  shrivelled  soul, 

Stark  naked  to  its  judgment, 
Before  All-Nature  Sentient. 

Surely  then  will  be  made  plain, 

The  why  and  wherefore,  end  and  aim, 

Of  this  life's  rewards  unequal, 
In  nature's  justice  find  the  sequel, 

And  reason  for  our  spirit's  cry, 
What  boon  is  this,  "In  Truth,"  to  die ! 


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PREFETORY  NOTE  TO  "THE  WANDERER." 

In  view  of  the  wide  difference  of  opinion  which  still  exist  between 
strongly  antagonistic  groups  regarding  the  question  of  evolution,  the 
writer  deems  it  expedient  to  present  to  the  lay  reader  just  one  fact 
in  evidence  which  is  not  generally  known. 

Until  recently  the  procedure  in  testing  blood  stains  to  determine 
their  origin,  whether  human  or  animal,  was  involved  in  great  difficulty 
and  uncertainty.  Now,  however,  this  is  no  longer  the  case. 

If  a  dried  stain  be  dissolved  in  water  and  a  few  drops  be  mixed 
separately  with  a  small  amount  of  blood  from  various  animals,  for 
example  with  that  of  a  person,  a  dog,  a  cat  and  a  horse,  and  then  each 
be  observed  under  the  microscope,  in  some  of  these  admixtures  it  will 
be  seen  that  the  fresh  blood  corpuscles  are  being  dissolved  and 
destroyed  by  the  action  of  the  dried  blood,  while  in  one  only  this  will 
not  take  place  but  the  two  will  harmonize  perfectly.  This  harmony 
can  only  take  place  in  bloods  derived  from  animals  of  the  same 
family.  It  is  not  important  that  the  blood  be  from  a  particular  breed 
of  dog  or  of  horse  or  of  human  being.  Within  the  family  relationship 
they  harmonize  perfectly.  Outside  they  do  not. 

In  this  connection,  a  bizarre  fact  was  also  discovered.  This  is 
that  the  blood  of  the  anthropoid  apes  (chimpanzees,  gibbons  and 
orangs)  harmonize  perfectly  with  the  bluest  of  human  blood. 

(See  Salesby's  Organic  Evolution,  pp.  76-77.) 

This  fact  would  seem  to  require  no  comment  but  it  may  be  well 
to  amplify  it  slightly  by  saying  that  this  harmony  ceases  at  this  point 
and  does  not  extend  to  the  lower  apes  and  monkeys  which  are  thus 
evidently  outside  of  direct  human  connection  and  relationship. 

As  stated  elsewhere,  students  and  readers  must  guard  themselves 
against  hasty  judgment.  No  claim  is  made  by  science  that  human 
beings  are  descended  from  apes,  but  it  is  claimed  that  both  have  a 
common  ancestor  from  which  the  ape  is  a  degenerate  descendant, 
while  the  human  being  is  a  regenerate  ascendant,  which  is  quite  a 
different  thing  and  well  worth  noting  for  its  personal  and  also  its 
Christian  doctrinal  bearing. 

Furthermore  the  point  involved  does  not  touch  the  root  of  the  real 
trouble  which  causes  the  intellectual  divergence  of  opinion  over  the 
question  of  evolution.  In  this  not  blood  but  consciousness  is  the 
technical  point  involved  which  makes  it  a  question  of  psychology  and 
not  of  biology.  The  writer  from  his  studies  and  experiences  is  con- 
vinced that  consciousness  is  the  increasing  (or  evolutionary)  desire 
of  God,  who  is  Himself  the  Infinite  Ideal,  seeking  and  demanding 
perfect  material  or  substantial  expression.  Furthermore  that  this 
takes  place  in  an  ever  wider  and  fuller  degree;  that  it  is  recognied 
by  God  in  wider  and  fuller  revelation  of  Himself,  accompanied  by  a 
deeper  insight  into  and  control  over  His  handiwork,  until  finally 
perfect  attainment  is  reached,  in  which  God  and  man  find  eternal  joy 
and  felicity. 

This  perfection  thereby  becomes  a  regnant,  spiritual  unit  or 
personality,  like  unto  God  Himself,  and  at  the  same  time  becomes 
the  realized  standard  in  control  of  the  sphere  of  action  under  consider- 
ation, in  ths  case  that  of  humanity,  the  model  or  law  to  which  we 
must  conform. 

Through  the  processes  of  life,  death,  and  change,  the  connection 
between  God  and  His  handiwork  is  never  lost,  each  perfected  attain- 
ment going  to  add  to  the  growth  and  enhance  the  spiritual  power  and 

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broaden  the  control  vested  in  the  primal  spiritual  unit,  while  failure 
reaps  its  own  reward.  In  death  realization  is  complete,  so  that  the 
sensate  individual  becomes  his  own  judge,  and  were  it  not  for  the 
infinite  mercy  and  love  of  God  and  of  Christ,  hope  would  flee  forever 
from  the  human  breast.  We,  and  by  we  I  mean,  all  nature  sensate,  in 
the  presence  of  this  realization  and  with  full  knowledge  of  our  own 
waywardness  would  indeed  condemn  ourselves  to  the  fiery  hell  of 
primitive  theology  from  which  God  in  the  first  instance  and  Christ  in 
the  second  save  us,  granting  us  forgiveness,  unless  indeed  we  present 
ourselves  with  a  loss  instead  of  gain,  of  virtue  and  of  spirituality. 
Even  then  the  judgment  does  not  involve  us  in  any  other  fiery  torment 
than  that  of  degeneracy  and  of  a  full  realization  of  the  meaning  of 
this,  which  to  the  writer's  mind  would  be  quite  hell  enough.  The 
upward  climb  has  been  to  my  mind  sufficiently  hard  and  I  don't  care 
to  lose  one  inch  of  the  ground  gained  but  rather  to  leap  forward  to  the 
goal  now  while  I  can  and  be  sure  of  it.  This  one  and  all  may  do. 


THE   WANDERER. 

A  babe  within  his  cradle  lay, 
New  molden,  beating  form  of  x:lay, 
Launched  forth  into  the  light  of  day; 
Primordial  mite  of  protoplasm, 
From  time  and  space  to  bridge  their  chasm. 
Unite  life's  strands  of  chromatasm.    1* 

In  him  can  trace  the  proud  descent 

Of  all  the  races  Occident ; 

Angle,  Teuton,  Gaul  and  Celt, 

Roman,  Greek  and  Aryan, 

Ham  and  Shem  to  root  Caucasian, 

Whence  Adam  and  Eve  left  the  branch  Turanian. 

All  history's  tale  in  him  concrete, 
The  tangled  skein  is  full  complete, 
Impressed  in  nuclear  fibres  deep ; 
Nature's  microgenetic  scroll, 
Her  record  fixed  in  roll  on  roll, 
Of  graphic  film,  embryonic  soul. 

*1.  For  the  information  of  those  who  have  not  had  time  or  oppor- 
tunity to  investigate  for  themselves  the  facts  of  modern  biology,  a 
short  explanation  of  the  composite  parts  and  qualities  of  cells,  and 
especially  of  reproductive  or  germ  cells,  is  necessary,  to  aid  them  to 
an  understanding  of  this  poem. 

Nearly  everyone  now  knows  that  the  single  protoplasmic  cell  is  at 
the  basis  of  all  organic  life,  whether  simple  or  complex.  It  is  also 
generally  known  that  it  divides  repeatedly  in  the  very  lowest  orders 
to  reproduce  separate  and  distinct  individual  organisms  and  in  the 
higher  to  reproduce  and  form  the  complex  body,  which  also  thus 
becomes  eventually  a  separate  and  distnict  individual  of  a  certain  fixed 
class  or  type. 

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From  each  united  ancestral  strand, 
That  backwards  through  the  ages  grand, 
The  message  upward  bore  to  man; 
Through  countless  variant,  vagrant  roads, 
The  stream  has  ebbed ;  the  stream  has  flowed ; 
Each  errant  branch  some  truth  bestowed. 

No  epoch  past,  no  single  stage, 

But  marked  mistakes  on  nature's  page, 

To  warn  and  guide  from  error's  wage. 

Conditioned  by  environment, 

Each  era's  form  obedient, 

Arose  to  heights  predominent. 

But  as  this  pregnant  whirling  sphere, 
This  vital  throbbing  mother,  dear, 
Rides  on  towards  fruition  clear, 
Her  every  changing  form  and  feature, 
Must  ever  choose  some  fitting  creature, 
To  serve  as  heir  primogeniture. 

It  is  further  known  that  all  cells  are  organic,  in  that  they  have  a 
central  nucleus,  surrounded  by  an  outer  body;  also  that  they  show 
powers  of  discrimination  in  the  ingestion,  digestion  and  assimilation 
of  food  and,  even  in  the  simplest  forms,  some  motile  power. 

What  is  not  so  generally  known  is  the  well-ordered  unity  that 
marks  the  simplest  and  the  most  complex  cell  life,  and  the  intimate 
knowledge  which  science  has  acquired  of  certain  organic  facts  of  great 
human  interest.  These  we  will  try  to  summarize  as  briefly  as  pos- 
sible: 

Within  the  nucleus  there  appears  under  miscroscopic  examina- 
tion two  specialized  substances,  one  of  which  can  be  readily  stained 
or  which  reacts  to  and  readily  absorbs  coloring  matter,  while  the 
other  remains  practically  unaffected.  They  bear  a  relationship  to  one 
another  somewhat  like  that  of  a  boat  afloat  in  water,  an  object  and  its 
medium  of  existence,  in  this  case  a  sensitive  object.  This  substance 
is  called  chromatin  and  its  medium  achromatin. 

Now  in  the  process  of  growth  of  the  cell,  the  internuclear  sub- 
stances seem  to  have  little  or  no  interest,  but  when  the  cell  has 
reached  maturity,  the  chromatin  which  has  been  variously  described 
as  a  ball,  skein  or  network  of  somewhat  indefinite  formation,  begins 
to  unwind  and  then  to  separate  into  a  certain  number  of  separate 
rods  called  chromosomes.  These  proceed  to  allign  themselves  abreast 
and  then  to  be  pulled  apart  at  what  we  are  compelled  to  believe  is  the 
exact  median  line,  so  that  each  hemisphere  of  the  nucleus  contains 
exactly  one  half  of  each  rod.  After  this  the  walls  of  the  cell  close  in 
on  the  nucleus  and  the  whole  divides  bearing  with  each  daughter  cell 
a  corresponding  half  of  the  internuclear  substance  and  of  the  chromo- 
somes. 

The  number  of  cromosomes  involved  in  the  process  in  every  distinct 
order  of  life  is  invariable  which  fact  is  stated  by  Thomson  in  "The 
Wonder  of  Life"  pp.  380  as  follows:  "In  each  cell  in  the  body  of  an 
organism  there  is  normally  a  nucleus  or  kernal,  and  within  the  nucleus 
a  definite  number  of  readily  stainable  rods,  or  loops,  or  granules 

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Alone  could  reach  such  high  gradation, 
The  units  wisest  in  creation, 
In  experience  gained  through  variation, 
By  an  ever  lengthening  servitude, 
Of  patient,  joyous  parenthood, 
Obedient  to  love,  the  unselfish  good. 

Whence  cells  in  families  congregated, 

To  special  functions  dedicated, 

For  mutual  service  federated. 

Reactive  to  primal  law  commutable, 

Conferred  through  life  and  death  transmutable, 

To  perfect  justice  attributable. 

Until  at  last  in  form  resplendent, 

The  final  fruit  and  seed  ascendent, 

Evolved  to  heritage  transcendent. 

In  which  complete  elaborated, 

True  embryo  of  hope  awaited, 

The  touch  Almighty,  self-conscous  freighted. 

Since  first  with  eyes  upturned  to  heaven, 

In  thought  conceived  therein  the  question, 

That  spurred  him  up  and  into  action ; 

No  backward  glance  to  paradise, 

Could  serve  his  footsteps  to  entice, 

Until  should  win  his  vision's  heights. 

called  chromosomes.  Each  kind  of  living  creature  has  a  particular 
number,  thus  there  are  twenty-four  in  man,  mouse  and  lily,  sixteen  in 
ox,  guinea  pig  and  onion,  twelve  in  the  grasshopper,  two  in  one  of  the 
threawo.rms  and  so  on.  There  is  no  doubt  that  these  chromosomes 
are  very  important,  and  most  biologists  regard  them  as  the  bearers  of 
hereditary  qualities.  It  is  quite  safe  to  say  that  the  chromosomes 
along  with  the  other  germinal  constituents,  stand  in  some  definite 
casual  relation  to  the  adult  characters.  Now  the  remarkable  fact  is 
that,  while  the  immature  germ  (or  reproductive)  cells  have  the  same 
number  of  chromosomes  as  the  body  cells  of  the  species  under  con- 
sideration, which  he  designates  as  (N),the  mature  germ  cells  have  only 
one  half  that  number  (the  other  half  having  been  gotten  rid  of  by  a 
very  beautiful  and  wonderfully  complicated  process)  producing  a  cell 

with  its  hereditary    qualities  divided,    which  he  formulates  as  —     By 

certain  circumstances,  equally  wonderfully  and  variantly  regulated, 
to  mature  germ  or  reproductive  cells  are  brought  together  and  con- 
jugate, a  male  and  female  cell,  each  bearing  half  of  the  parents 

N       N 

hereditory  qualities  from  which  union  of  —  +  —  =N;  a  new  com- 
plete cell  capable  of  dividing  and  subdividing  itself  and  building  up  a 
new  body  the  counterpart  of  its  parents,  is  created. 

I  have  taken  the  liberty  of  varying  somewhat  the  phraseology  of 
the  authority  quoted  in  order  to  better  adapt  it  to  my  subject  matter. 

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In  the  currents  of  life  flowing  free  day  by  day ; 

In  the  depths  of  pure  soul  that  by  night  lit  his  way ; 

In  the  order  and  purpose  that  the  universe  sway ; 

Saw  Jehovah,  on  high,  upon  his  white  throne, 

The  God  of  Command,  He,  whose  will  must  be  done, 

E'er  the  dreams  of  His  prohets  upon  earth  could  be  won. 

Thus  first  knew  his  weakness,  his  need,  and  dependence ; 

To  Nature's  God  from  his  knees  cried  out  for  true  guidance ; 

Sent  upward  burnt  incense  to  appease  the  Just  Vengeance ; 

Then  into  man's  soul,  full  awakened  at  last, 

New  currents  divinely  inspiring  passed, 

With  the  spiritual  leaven  of  intelligence  fast. 

Thence  to  trace  from  crude  beginning, 

On  and  up  time's  pathway  winning, 

The  growing  webs  of  conscience  spinning; 

All  the  tongues  through  history  coined, 

Had  failed,  though  for  this  end  purloined, 

Till  intelligence  and  love  in  Christ  were  joined. 

In  Him,  God's  prototype  of  truth, 
The  earth  at  last  gave  certain  proof, 
That  her  life  should  yet  bear  perfect  fruit. 
When  mind  in  men  should  truly  learn, 
Reaction  to  Christ's  immortal  sperm, 
Which  once  conceived  must  eternal  burn. 

But  ever  since  the  tasted  fruit 
Of  knowledge  gained  its  first  recruit, 
A  soldier  bound  to  its  pursuit ; 
Slaves  had  been  to  false  ambition, 
Lost  their  past  of  sweet  submission, 
Peace  and  content  in  Nature's  Eden. 

Within  whose  sylvan  glades  and  dells, 

In  bliss  of  ignorance  still  dwells, 

A  myriad  genetic  mental  cells : 

Led  on  by  rhythm  of  pure  sensation. 

Fast  to  the  threshold  of  aspiration, 

The  ladder  ascending  to  inspiration. 

This  subject  will  bear  following  up,  and  those  desiring  to  do  so 
cannot  do  better  than  to  study  the  book  above  referred  to;  Bergson's 
Problems  of  Life  and  Reproduction  and,  for  a  more  elementary  study, 
"Salesby's  Organic  Evolution"  can  be  recommended,  but  the  student 
should  not  form  definite  opinions  on  these  subjects  until  they  have 
followed  them  to  considerable  length.  A  book  which  is  well  qualified 
to  assist  in  this  however  is  "Fiske's  Through  Nature  to  God." 

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Whence  life's  processes  evolutionary, 
By  ideal  conception  rudimentary, 
Beget  new  relation  supplementary. 
Where  love  by  contact  with  its  essence, 
Perceives  true  reason  for  its  presence, 
Beyond  immediate  state  and  influence. 

That  mind  and  matter  from  state  zymotic,  *2 
Must  be  wrought  into  unison  by  action  zygotic, 
Perfect  justice  enacted  for  each  progress  chronotic. 
For  on  experience  is  founded  this  primal  precept, 
That  existence  is  bounded  by  cause  and  effect, 
Through  genesis  evolved  from  Ideal  Concept. 

For  what  are  the  facts  of  existence  but  these, 

Through  the  ages  compounded  into  realities, 

Obeying  the  precepts  true  experience  decrees. 

Then  consider  the  meaning,  the  state  and  relation, 

That  man  and  his  projects  thus  bear  to  creation, 

How  each  thought,  word  and  deed  must  find  justification. 

So  what  is  God,  if  not  the  Infiinte  Ideal, 

Whose  virgin  conception  first  started  the  wheel 

Of  Love's  Holy  Spirit  which  makes  the  universe  feel? 

And  what  is  His  Son  but  His  ideal  reflection, 

Attained  and  made  manifest  by  the  virgin  conception,  *3 

In  a  sublime  human  soul  in  the  state  of  perfection? 

But  mind,  what  is  it,  but  experience  supernal, 

That  acts  and  reacts  through  divine  will  eternal, 

On  the  facts  of  existence  found  in  matter  external? 

And  nature's  laws  and  her  precepts  but  experience  concrete, 

Spiritual  units  perfected  dealing  justice  complete, 

Swords  of  truth  that  arm  love  for  ignorant  evil's  defeat? 

And  what  is  man  but  the  end  filament, 
Of  Almighty  Creation,  in  him  intelligent, 
Seeking  perfect  expression  but  still  discontent? 
And  what  is  his  babe  but  the  clay  sentized, 
To  react  the  precepts  in  him  harmonized 
By  a  human  conception  of  love  realized 


2.  Zymotic  is  the  fermentative  or  chaotic  state. 
Zygotic  is  the  germinative  or  organized  state. 

Progress  chronotic,  chronological  progress,  in  order  of  time. 

3.  Virgin   conception,   a   sinless   conception,    immaculate   and    in- 
nocent, dedicated  and  consecrated  to  the  ideal,  whether  it  be  a  physical 
or  mental  conception. 

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Happy  the  babe  in  whose  cells  unite, 
Alpha  and  beta  coils  of  love  shining  bright,  *4 
With  renunciation's  divine  gamma  light; 
Whose  petals  of  sentience  slowly  unfolding, 
Shall  be  sown  with  wisdom's  pure  pollen  golden, 
Fertile  with  the  truth  by  the  ages  molden. 

Happy  the  child,  whose  acute  observation, 
Is  fed  from  love's  fountain  of  self-abnegation, 
With  leaven  to  heighten  each  nascent  sensation ; 
Tenderly  exposing  to  each  sensitized  plate, 
The  pictures  and.  precepts  true  experience  dictate, 
To  nourish  and  strengthen  and  in  life  imitate. 

Happy  is  he,  if  the  days  of  his  youth, 

Be  guided  by  council  and  loving  reproof, 

To  a  strong  correlation  of  soul's  warp  and  woof. 

Twice  happy  when  manhood's  knock  on  the  door, 

Finds  him  fitted  and  ready  and  armed  for  the  war, 

That  shall  prove  his  temper  in  life's  battle  roar. 

Into  whose  fibres  of  body  and  mind, 
True  limits  of  use  and  abuse  are  defined, 
The  chasm  near  which  we  are  marching  blind. 
From  whose  yawning  depths  of  annihilation, 
We  may  hear  the  moan  of  past  errant  creation, 
If  but  keyed  to  react  to  the  warning  vibration. 

Happy  is  she,  who  when  womanhood  calls, 
Shall  bravely  face  duty  whatever  befalls, 
With  knowledge  and  purpose  enter  life's  halls. 
Knowing  her  power  and  right  of  election, 
Nor  waver  nor  falter  in  making  selection, 
Not  counterfeit  gold,  but  true  virile  perfection. 

Thrice  happy  are  they  whose  coordinate  strands,  *5 
Shall  meet  thus  and  join  in  love's  righteous  demands, 
Forging  true  links  in  Ideal  Conception  Grand. 
Whose  union 'shall  thought,  word  nor  deed  desecrate, 
In  communion  sublime  life  to  life  dedicate, 
To  Almighty  Creation  soul  to  soul  consecrate. 

*4.  These  metaphors  are  derived  from  the  known  qualities  of  the 
three  component  emanations  from  the  metal  "radium."  The  alpha  and 
beta  rays  representing  destructive  and  constructive  extremes,  while 
the  intermediate  gamma  rays  appear  to  be  a  combination  of  the  two 
and  to  be  truly  creative,  as  is  evidenced  by  the  curative  qualities  of 
these  latter  when  the  two  former  are  filtered  out. 

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Happy  the  age  and  happy  the  nation, 

Whose  life  blood  is  fluxed  in  such  generation, 

In  whose  glory  the  earth  shall  find  consummation ; 

When  all  her  forces  of  life  idealized, 

Shall  find  in  her  service  their  hopes  realized, 

Truth's  Almighty  perception  in  them  organized. 

Thus  each  from  all  blindness  and  morbidness  flee, 

W'ith  a  song  on  our  lips  whate'er  our  burdens  may  be, 

Face  the  future  with  the  courage  of  reality ; 

That  knows  feels  and  act  in  complete  correspondence, 

With  every  impulse  for  good  whose  contact  is  the  evidence, 

Of  that  fulness  of  love  that  is  proof  of  obedience. 

That  carries  no  load  through  life's  portals  of  time, 
Of  experience  unworthy  of  God's  Ideal  Divine, 
Where  rejection  is  death  from  eternity  sublime. 
But  a  soul  overflowing  with  Christ's  burden  of  love, 
That  no  more  knows  the  shadow  of  God's  crucified  dove, 
But  felicity  complete  in  His  Unity  above. 


*5.  The  writer  would  not  wish  to  be  misunderstood  as  favoring 
any  idealistic  experiments  in  sexual  relationships.  The  system  of 
strict  monogamy,  publically  consecrated  by  appropriate  religious 
ceremonial,  and  privately  consecrated  in  the  hearts  of  the  interested 
parties  with  an  intelligent  comprehension  of  life's  responsibilities 
before  and  after  entering  the  marital  state,  will  some  day  relieve  the 
race  from  the  sins  of  misconduct,  divorce  and  prevent  people  from 
hurriedly  entering  upon  a  relationship  affecting  not  themselves  alone 
but  all  of  us.  If  not  some  proper  means  will  become  necessary  to  curb 
present  unbridaled  license.  And  if  we  do  not  do  this  voluntarily, 
Nature  will,  in  her  usual  painful  way,  and  then  see  that  you  not  rebel 
against  your  merited  correction. 


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GOD'S  WORKSHOP. 

Dedicated  to  a  dear,  little  friend,  who  died,  and  whose  loved  ones 
could  not  understand. 

Love  one  morning  at  break  of  day, 

Went  into  her  garden  to  ramble  and  play ; 

When  down  at  her  feet  an  angel  fell. 

That  had  lost  his  way  and  had  almost  reached  hell. 

His  wings  were  broken ;  his  sight  nigh  gone ; 

His  heart  scarce  beat ;  he  was  weary  and  worn ; 

A  long,  long  night  he  had  striven  through, 

Upheld  by  a  memory  that  he  hardly  knew ; 

That  if  he  only  would  ceaselessly  hope  and  pray, 

God's  strength  would  sustain  him  till  the  new  dawn  of  day 

Should  show  him  the  garden  of  hope's  delight, 

Where  fallen  angels  find  a  welcome  bright; 

Where  tender  hands  would  lift  him  up ; 

Bind  up  his  wounds ;  bid  him  freely  to  sup 

From  hope's  living  fountains  of  faith  and  love, 

Till  once  again  strong  for  his  journey  above. 

But  all  the  doctors  and  nurses  there 

Were  but  partly  cured  patients  of  love's  tender  care; 

And  most  of  the  doctors  were  jealous  and  vain, 

By  their  blindness  and  pride,  hope  had  all  but  slain ; 

While  the  nurses  were  thoughtless,  lazy  or  mad ; 

Weak,  rough  and  nigh  worthless,  but  none  were  quite  bad. 

So  love  was  kept  busy  from  morning  to  night 

Dealing  orders  and  justice  to  left  and  to  right; 

Instructing  her  children,  both  the  new  and  the  old, 

With  faith  at  her  side  to  uplift  and  uphold. 

Now  love  you  can  feel,  taste,  see,  hear  and  smell, 

But  faith  is  a  spirit  and  an  ideal  as  well. 

Her  children  unheeding,  love's  gifts  misused, 

For  her  lessons  and  justice  Holy  Spirit  accused. 

While  the  doctors  had  seized  an  empty  shadow  of  faith, 

And  themselves  ordained  masters  to  judge  and  to  hate. 

But  sometimes  a  faint  glimmer  of  truths  bright  sheen 

Was  the  joyous  reward  by  love's  labors  seen ; 

And  this  was  all  that  her  true  heart  asked, 

For  times  without  number,  yes  for  times  and  a  half.    *1 

Till  at  last,  one  bright  morning,  a  pure  light  gleamed, 

Out  from  the  eyes  of  an  earth-born  streamed. 

And  many  that  were  sick  and  thoughtless  and  mad, 

Yes,  even  some  that  were  weak,  worthless  and  nigh  bad ; 

By  the  touch  of  His  hand  were  cured  and  made  clean, 

And  followed  and  worshipped  Truth's  bright,  shining  gleam, 

Which  the  doctor's  all  saw  with  jealous  envy  and  hate, 

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And  sought  for  some  manner  in  safety  to  take. 

Then  hate  shrewdly  whispered,  "Ask  Him  for  a  proof  of  His 

might"  ; 

For  well  hate  knew  this  was  like  asking  white 
To  be  false  to  its  purity  and  paint  itself  black ; 
Or  Truth  to  put  His  parents,  love  and  faith,  on  the  rack. 
So  all  that  He  answered  was ;  "Thy  will  be  done, 
If  this  cup  I  must  drink  that  man's  victory  be  won". 
So  they  took  Him  and  raised  Him  high  on  the  cross, 
Blindly  thinking  to  thus  prove  the  "Son  of  Man"  false ; 
When  this  was  the  one  thing  needful  to  prove 
To  His  brethren  beloved  how  every  perfect  thing  moves ; 
To  show  them  the  road,  the  way  and  the  law, 
We  must  fearlessly  tread,  all  who  upward  would  draw 
Our  brothers  and  sisters,  to  lighten  the  dread 
That  has  darkened  the  portal  twixt  the  living  and  dead ; 
A  beacon  whose  gleam  would  shine  down  the  ages, 
Love  and  faith's  payment  full  in  eternity's  wages; 
Bridging  death's  chasm  with  the  Christ  Light  of  Truth ; 
When  humanity  all  from  the  days  of  their  youth 
Shall  give  heed  and  attend  to  His  sacred  example ; 
Then  all  nations  and  races  will  find  government  ample 
In  the  book  of  His  law,  with  its  truth  full  revealed 
In  the  states  of  existence  in  God's  handiwork  concealed. 

*1.  See  Daniel  12:7,  which  interpreted  means,  times  without  num- 
ber, yes,  for  times  and  a  half,  that  is  for  an  eternity  of  patience  and 
even  for  eternity  and  half  beyond,  which  seems  to  be  the  ultimate 
expression  of  this  divine  quality. 

FINIS. 


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God   is    The    Infinite    Ideal,    the    All-Environing    Soul,    the 

Supreme    Intelligence    and    Master    Mind    of    Supernal 

Experience,  Seeking  Perfect  Finite  Expression 

In  the  Creation  of  a  Continuous  Cosmos  of  Order  and  Purpose, 
of  Beauty,  Harmony,  Sympathy,  and  Unselfishness, 

By  The  Synthesis  of  Love. 

Out   of   a    Discontinuous   Chaos   of    Disorder    and    Lack    of 

Purpose,  of  Discord,   Ugliness,   Jealousy   and  Egotism, 

in  the  Antithesis  of  Hate. 

The  Universe  is  God's  Workshop. 

Faith  is  His  Vision  and  Design. 

Hope  is  His  Philosophy  and  Religion  . 

The  Five  Senses  are   His   Fingers,   His  Delicately  Adjusted 
Tools. 

The  Faculties  are  The  Strings  of  the  Finite  Soul  upon  which 
He  Plays. 

Sensations  are  His  Touch 

Aspiration  is  His  Incoherent  Desire. 

Emotion  is  His  Language. 

Inspiration  is  His  Voice. 

The  States  of  Existence  are  His  Accomplishments. 

Nature  is  His  Home. 

Nature's  Laws  are  His  Perfected,  Regnant  Children. 

His  Son  is  His  Ideal  Reflection, 

A  Perfect  Intellectual  Personality  and  Spiritual  Entity, 
In  whom  Love  and  Intelligence  are  Reunited  and  Com- 
pletely Reactive, 
Expressing  The  Father's  Will  and  Defining  His  Nature 

in  Perfect  Terms, 

A    Regnant   Spiritual   Unit   governing   the    Destinies    of 
Humanity. 

Truth  is  God's  Experience. 

Knowledge  is  God's  Self-Revelation  to  a  World  over  which 
His  Son  is  becoming  increasingly  Regnant,  through  God's 
Clearing  House  of  Death,  wherein  Acceptable  Experience 
enters  into  Eternal  Felicity  as  an  integral  part  of  God's 
Truth  and  Unity,  while  rejected  experience  is  consigned  to 
its  Just  Place  in  the  relative  scale  of  Facts  and  States 
Existent  to  work  out  its  Justification. 

God's  Ultimate  Purpose  is  the  Creation  of  Finite  Children 
worthy  of  Inheriting  All-Knowledge  and  of  being 
Entrusted  with  All-Truth  and  Power. 


Gaylord  Bros. 

Makers 

Syracuse,  X.  V. 
PAT.  JAN.  21,  1908 


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